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Today, the UK discussed enforcing a ban on illegal music and video downloading from the internet.  As it stands right now, there is no real law in place to prevent such actions; this allows some 6 million people to continue downloading from sites that end in “.uk” without fear of prosecution.  

One of the many issues that has come about because of the internet is the illegal downloading of both music and then later movies.  People don’t seem to think that when they download from the internet, they are stealing.  When in actuality, taking a movie from a store without paying for it is really no different.  It is all stealing.  

And while I said originally that it was movies and music, I really actually mean anything that can be put on the internet for other people to download.  Computer programs are becoming a major download on the internet, and most of them are illegal.  In some cases, this is worse.  While movies and music usually don’t cost more than $10-20, some computer programs cost upwards of $1,000. 

I know that if the UK passes the anti-illegal downloading laws, there will be a massive sigh of disappointment,  heard probably around the world.  But I really don’t understand why.  Why do people feel they have the right to steal from other people?  That logic just doesn’t make sense to me.

The Achilles heel of college students is most definitely money.  Or rather, it would be the lack there of.  Money is definitely a necessity, and yet, one still finds it to be the rarest of the college resources.  But there have been reports in which people attest to finding reserves of this rare resource.  And after much investigation, it seems that these store of money usually begin to appear soon after students go off to college.  These money mines are located in the student’s home and are often referred to as “parents.”  While these resources seem to be present from the very beginning of the student’s life, it is only after one truly experiences the feeling of being completely broke that one truly is able to attempt to tap into this seemingly endless resource.  Apparently, parents cannot supply an endless stream of money, which was a devastating blow when this discovery was made.  

One extra security measure that has been put in place to prevent the over-mining of money from the wallet is the University Bucks that almost every college offers.  Parents put money into an account for their students, and it suddenly becomes completely worthless outside a mile of the school.  While this is all fine and dandy for the parents, it kind of leaves the students high and dry.  

This injustice must be stopped.  There needs to be a law against making money worthless.