Piracy

If the U.S. follows a similar law to the one in Sweden, it would affect the way teenagers recieved a lot of there entertainment. In today's society, people have gotten used to being able to retrieve what they want by illegal downloading. In the U.S. today, there are certain sites that allow people to download music or movies when they feel like it. There are a couple of site that i have been told of that you can download movies before they are even released from the theatres.
Personally, if they decided to enforce this law, it wouldn't affect me that much at all. The only thing I do that is close is burning cds, but i would gladly go and buy them or even get a membership to a downloading site like itunes. I think that it would be a good idea to make the people pay for the entertainment they are recieving for free.
Intellectual property is something that someone has written or copyrighted that is their property for ever. Even if they die, there children then inherit it. I think it is so important because they introduced a new idea or song or movie that made other people want to see it. Its so important to give the person who wrote it what they deserve for making such a piece of art. It would be like stealing the mona lisa. Intellectual property needs to be recognized by everyone, and have them know that it wasn't there idea but someone elses. People need to give credit where it is due.