This is a response to this open letter written by David Lowery to Emily White, an intern at NPR All Things Considered, who wrote this blog on the NPR blog.If you don't want to read all that, which I'd recommend doing, then this is the TL,DR: Emily, a music lover who wants work in the music industry, wrote on her blog that there are 11.000 songs in her iPod, but she's only paid for a handful of albums. Most of her music came from ripping her friend's CD's, ripping the college radio station she works at CD's, or were added to her iPod by other people. David wrote a letter directed to her (really directed to the younger generation who don't find downloading illegal music a bad thing), telling her how harmful this mentality is to the very same artists she loves. It was well written and well intentioned, and explains it very nicely even giving some great real life examples to support his argument.
