Show College students double music downloads 1 Jeren W. W Canning Globe Weekly News vo 1 years ago the Recording Industry Association of America filed suits against music down- down loaders The people who were being sued ranged in ages from 12 to 46 with the majority of music downloading coming from high school and college age students The sued the thousands of people in hopes of crushing the illegal music download industry As of today however the number of people using software such as to make the illegal downloads has more than doubled According to the June 16 2005 issue of Rolling Stone million people used to peer-to-peer software to download music in August of 2003 just before the filed suit In April of this year million million million mil mil- lion people were using to peer-to-peer software In a poll of students over half admitted to downloading music illegally in the last two years Obviously this trend is not slowing and the suits filed by bythe bythe bythe the have not scared the m into abandoning the revolution MM oI digital n It is not as if there is no alternative to the high price high of purchasing music at the old fashioned record store Apples Apple's and Microsoft's helped start the legal downloading of music charging 99 per song or per CD Even the first to peer-to-peer software was purchased by and restarted as a pay- pay per-download per site The downside to each of the major three legal music download companies is compatibility A person that uses has an wont won't be able to use or and vice versa many other players are not compatible with Everyone has downloaded at some time why pay 15 for a CD when you only like one or two two said Jason LeeThe LeeThe LeeThe Lee The chances of getting sued by the RIA A are so slim that its it's a gamble worth taking Students of are no different from students across r the country Most feel that trading music over the internet internet internet inter inter- net is the same as lending a friend a CD Of course its it's stealing but I dont don't see it as being any different from making a copy of a friends friend's CD added Lee When I buy a new CD it usually makes its rounds through the circle of friends so they can make a copy of it That 15 pretty much buys the CD for about 10 peoples peo peo- ples Digital music is here to stay the RIM seems to have havea a large problem in front of them Try as they might eight million n pe many to track down and i file t x I 0 ul Although possible for it is for any to get sued for copyright infringement the focuses mostly on those that have downloaded over songs illegally could ask for per download but so far as settled for an average of about |