Filing sharing as a right, an infringement, and a societal issue.

There are three pivotal moments in this documentary that allowed me to understand the copyright issue at large: The moment where they discuss the amount of jobs that have been lost, specifically about the shut down of Power records, The moment where they explain the process that goes into making remixed music and how vague the similarities can be, and the moment where they discuss how Nigeria has no piracy laws but still continues to run without the amount of complications we are currently experiencing.

I liked this documentary because instead of resolving the issue they basically just tried to make sense of it. The problem got messier and more complex as the movie went on. I didn't feel this movie truly had a strong stance either way; it was just provided to give viewers a more full bodied understanding of the problems we are currently encountering with file sharing and copyright law. I think they did a great job of illustrating how this issue is harming both sides. Overly stringent copyright legislature can lead to unnecessary restraints on creativity. It could create a marketplace for suing artists and this would dramatically decrease the amount of arts being circulated. But I also enjoyed how they represented the negative sides of file sharing also. How mass consumers are against the music production companies and not the artists individually; however the entire system is hurting everyone involved. It was clear when the distraught women spoke about the shut down of Power Records that this issue was affecting artists and expression on both ends.

But I think what gave me an even more complex under standing of this idea is when they discussed how file sharing functions in Nigeria. They have a perfectly functioning music industry and no need for copy wright laws. This made me think about this issue in terms of culture. It really depicted how this issue is not merely a universal problem or just an inherent occurrence. it depicted that the issues with copy wright infringement is also deep imbedded within our culture as well.  I think over all this piece was really interesting and really gave me a more in depth understanding of the issue at large.