Modern technology has made it easier for individuals to download copyrighted music and books from the internet for no charge To what extent is this a positive or a negative development

Essay topics:

Modern technology has made it easier for individuals to download copyrighted music and books from the internet for no charge.

To what extent is this a positive or a negative development?

There is no doubt that the Internet has changed the way how people live and what they do. Particularly, contemporary technologies allow to pirate copyrighted materials and not to pay money for it. Personally, I strongly believe that this is a negative development for individuals and a society, so let us consider some detrimental effects.

Firstly, in most cases books and music from the Internet have an author, so they are protected by the law. One should note here that governments create rules for everybody in order to live in a calm and a peace place. Consequently, if an individual violates the law, the police has to write a fine or to put this person into prison. The same principle works for an digital property, because buying or downloading materials from non-official sources is an illegal action. As a result, such people can get a lot of problems with the police or an author and receive a huge fine for these actions.

Secondly, creators have less incentives to work due to money shortages. To be more specific, every person all over the world does its job in order to earn a salary and to buy important needs. Book writers, musicians and software developers do their job for money too, but when users download products for no charge, creators can’t receive income for the work. Therefore, workers have no wish to develop and innovate, so this fact endangers the whole industry in a particular place. In addition, new companies are less likely to sell their products on such markets.

To draw the conclusion, I am of the opinion that the possibility to get copyrighted materials for free has a strongly negative effect on individuals because of fines as well as on a community due to several consequences in this industry.

Votes
Average: 9.2 (2 votes)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'pirating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: pirating
...ularly, contemporary technologies allow to pirate copyrighted materials and not to pay mo...
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Line 5, column 363, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...to prison. The same principle works for an digital property, because buying or dow...
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Line 9, column 25, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun incentives is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e actions. Secondly, creators have less incentives to work due to money shortag...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to, in addition, no doubt, as a result, as well as, in most cases

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88628762542 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85722491002 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605351170569 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9476698511 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.357142857 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4285714286 7.06120827912 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324412204679 0.244688304435 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.094592441213 0.084324248473 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0716037060004 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188125805089 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482884967222 0.056905535591 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 78.4519038076 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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