Let's flashback to our early childhood years, when artists would announce when their album would be released and we kids were all excited and couldn't wait to go into the store to buy it. We would save all our money for that day, beg our parents to take us to the store, then put the CD in our little CD players and listen to it on repeat. Nothing made us happier than buying that new CD from our favorite artists. Now let's go back to the present day, when all this no longer happens. Instead of saving money and begging our parents to take us to the store to buy a newly released album, we simply log on to our computer, visit a website, and download the album for free. No matter what the website is, be it Limewire, Frostwire or Pirate Bay, people will be happy with their free album. There are still some kids who like to go to the store, buy and listen to an album the old fashioned way, but we have to wonder how bad things will get as more and more people get equipped with the Internet and the use of downloading music. Although the Internet can make life easier for everyone, the growing use of Internet music downloading is becoming a harmful and illegal problem. Illegal downloading can also be known as piracy. Piracy is the theft of a piece of music for which the composer or recording artist did not give consent. It's the theft of music from people like songwriters, musicians, record label employees, and anyone else who puts in the hard work. There are some people who don't see any problem with downloading music from the Internet, but it has three main problems. The first problem is that music most likely won't have... half the paper... it's actually helping them legally. The fans who listen to the music are the ones whose opinions matter the most and the ones who shape the music. So when you download a song, they make it more popular. Tom Durrant points out, “Without it, we wouldn't have Spotify and a summer full of packed arenas” (Durrant). These downloads, while they may be illegal, are what make these songs and artists so popular. It can also be argued that “illegal downloads increase legal downloads” (Rothman). Some people believe that others are illegally downloading music for songs they would never have spent money on. It can even be argued that if the music hadn't been downloaded illegally, most people wouldn't even have listened to it. But the main problem remains that illegal downloading will cause more harm than good.