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The following two excerpts are about music downloading. From the excerpts, you can find that the banning of illegal downloading
The following two excerpts are about music downloading. From the excerpts, you can find that the banning of illegal downloading
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2017-06-17
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问题
The following two excerpts are about music downloading. From the excerpts, you can find that the banning of illegal downloading seems to have achieved some success, but there have also been doubt and criticism.
Write an article of NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:
summarize the main message of the excerpts, and then
comment on whether downloading music should be charged.
You should support yourself with information from the excerpts.
Excerpt 1
Time to Pay Arrives for China’s Online Music
Fans of QQ Music, Tencent’s popular streaming service, have been surprised to discover many of the songs they used to listen to have become unavailable for both play and download.
Attempts to play many popular tracks are met with the message, "This company has not provided us with the authorization to play their music and we are striving to respect copyrights." Since appearing on QQ Music, similar messages have spread to Duomi Music, NetEase Music, Kugou, TTPod and Xiami.
The trend is a response to the government’s increasingly severe control of copyright. In July, the National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China released a notice ordering online music operators to cease spreading music to which they do not own the rights by July 30. Sixteen music platforms quickly purged some 2.2 million songs from their platform. The age of free streaming in China appears to be coming to an end, and companies are now struggling to find a way to make their users pay. As China’s biggest music-streaming platform, QQ Music is exploring how to fight its competitors while changing Chinese users’ expectation of a free lunch.
Excerpt 2
Illegal Music Downloads Not Hurting Industry, Study Claims
It’s common sense: taking a thing that you used to pay for is not good for the people who created that thing. But when it comes to entertainment piracy, lots of folks have argued that things aren’t quite so simple. Now, with the release of a new analysis of 16,000 European music consumers, those on the side of piracy have evidence to back them up.
A few findings of the study—conducted by Luis Aguiar and Bertin Martins using Nielsen "clickstream" data, and released by the European Commission Joint Research Centre—found that illegal music downloads had essentially positive effect on the number of legal music downloads:
Specifically, the study found that legal purchases would be about 2 percent lower without illegal downloading available—meaning, yes, illegal downloads boost legal downloads. Their conclusion: people who download pirated music mostly do so for tunes they wouldn’t have ever spent money on. The positive effect of streaming was even larger.
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答案
Downloading Music Should Be Charged Recently, music fans in China found that many of the songs they used to listen to have become unavailable for both play and download in popular music platforms, such as QQ Music, Kugou, TTPod and Xiami. The music platforms claim the banning of unauthorized music is to respect the copyright of the music creators. However, there are findings suggesting illegal music download may boost music sales. Is it really necessary to ban free music download and charge certain fees for music play and download. As far as I am concerned, listeners should pay for downloading songs, and the reasons are as follows. To start with, charging fees for downloading songs has increasingly been an irreversible trend around the globe. It must be noted that songs downloaded are set at a very low price, say, 5 bucks a song, which definitely will not cost much to the Internet users and they will remain loyal to their favorite singers like ever before. But imagine 5 bucks is multiplied by millions of people, which will be generous revenue for the whole industry. Second, downloading songs for free has allowed illegal piracy to run rampant for years. Charging fees for high-quality songs will crack down on any violations of intellectual property rights. To conclude, downloading songs should be charged for it can generate abundant revenue for the music industry and safeguard the intellectual property rights of musicians.
解析
本题要讨论的是下载音乐是否应该收费。首先应当总结概括两篇材料中的内容,然后给出个人观点。文章结构可安排如下:
第一段:简要概括材料内容,提出自己的看法——下载音乐应收费。
第二段:列出理由论证自己的观点,首先,付费下载音乐在全球范围内日渐成为一种不可逆转的趋势,它将给整个音乐行业带来巨大收益;第二,免费下载音乐则会助长剽窃盗版的猖狂气焰。
第三段:总结全文,重申观点——付费下载音乐能给音乐行业带来巨大的收益,能保护音乐人的知识产权。
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