Pros and Cons of Piracy and the RIIA

The Pros & Cons of Illegal Downloading!!!
Pros for illegal downloading:
    You can download anything at anytime even if it’s a song a movie and it does not have its best quality.
    You will save a lot of money illegally downloading programs online.
    You can download it and see if you like it or not.

Cons for illegal downloading:
    Actors and Musicians losing money because you are pirating their work.

    You are breaking the law you are the one taking the risk to get caught and having a criminal record.

    Possibility of getting banned from the Internet.

    Downloading files illegally have a risk of getting a virus

Now what is the real problem !!!

After doing some research online and read about the RIAA ( Recording Industry Association of America) I checked their website and it was very interesting information that they had in the statistics  about  how much piracy has caused the revenue to go down. They talked abut how the music business has increased in digital revenues by 1000% from 2004 to 2010 but the digital music theft has been a major factor behind the overall global market decline around 31 percent in the same period of time.
Some of the statistics from the digital music theft:
                  -Sense P2P file-sharing site Napster opened in 1999 music sales in the U.S. dropped 53%
                  -From 2004 to 2009 about 30 million songs where downloaded illegally
                  -NPD reported that only 37 % if music downloaded in the U.S.  in 2009 was legally bought
                                   
                  It is unbelievable knowing that only 37 % of the music bought by consumers was legally and the rest of the music was illegally downloaded form the internet. People have been pirating music software movies for a long period of time even the time when movies were in tapes and songs where in cassettes. Since the 1999 till 2009 only 35 % of people that download music illegally knew that file-sharing was illegal but after the initiation of the end-user legal campaign the number went up to 70 %.

                  I think because people download music, software and movies for free online illegally the companies have raised their prices of their product so they can make some income. If the companies dropped the prices to a reasonable price do you think that people would actually buy the product instead of downloading illegally?
                 

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