As you load Lady Gaga's latest (and most spectacular) new Art Pop album into your iTunes library, reduce the size and take an in-depth look at the your devoted collection. You have collected almost 2000 songs, 150 films and 200 books. From The Beatles to Deadmau3, Miley Cyrus to Nirvana, you have every type of music you could imagine. Worse yet, you don't even listen to a tenth of it! You also collected all this media for an outrageous price: absolutely nothing. After 2 and a half years of constant file sharing via Limewire, Frostwire, and Vuze, you've easily surpassed Pirated Media's four or five thousand dollar mark. Ultimately, though, your actions come at a cost. When the federal government discovers your malicious activity, you are charged with thousands of dollars in copyright infringement fines, court settlements, and more years in federal prison than you could have ever imagined. “What did I do wrong? Am I really hurting anyone?" you ask yourself. Peer-to-peer file sharing is an action born almost 15 years ago that creates a connection between computers around the world to share any type of file and information. The creation of Napster in 1999, the dramatic decline in music sales, anti-theft laws in the United States, and a growing understanding of the world of file sharing all contribute to one shared idea: file sharing while downloading torrents is entirely unethical because it takes money from media rights holders and abuses their intellectual property rights, and is a straight-up act of theft and dissent from the law (Old Napster was the original peer-to-peer file-sharing service). to-peer released in 1999, so that people could share the music files they had...... in the center of the sheet......>.Rojas, Fabio "the history of sales in the recording industry, 1973-2010." orgtheorynet. Np, 13 July 2011. Web. 21 April 2014. .Rojas, Fabio. the history of record industry sales, 1973-2010. 2011. The History of Recording Industry Sales, 1973-2010, United States of America. http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-history-of-recording-industry-sales-1973-2010/. Network. April 3, 2014."Overview of thefts." Findlaw. Np, nd Web. April 21, 2014. .Tyson, Jeff. "HowStuffWorks "How the old Napster worked."" How things work. Np, nd Web. April 21, 2014. “theft.” Merriam Webster. Merriam-Webster and Web. April 22. 2014. .