In defense of piracy: a critique assignment

It is precisely the point that these hyped songs are only objects of desire and not necessities. Therefore, it is not right to demand piracy simply because one likes only one song from an album and does not want to waste money on buying an entire album. The burden is thus upon the consumer to reflect upon himself whether he really needs to make that purchase. The author has mentioned that it is unethical to be paying so much for a song only to get bored by it after a few weeks. This argument is weak because it is the nature of humans to be naturally bored of anything he encounters so frequently.

In consumerism, this phenomenon is known of the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. As such, getting bored of a song is no excuse for not wanting to pay for it in the first place. When a person has gotten bored of a song means he has ‘ maximally consumed’ the utility of the song and hence this even justifies the payment. Another point about people getting bored of the albums they bought is that many actually sell back their albums to second hand stores. It should be noted that those who bought albums can actually rip the songs into their hard disks for personal consumption and this will not be considered as piracy.