Discuss the pros and cons of access to free downloads of music on the Internet.

What will be an ideal response?

Copyright protection rewards creative people and the companies that hire and promote them with income from sales of music. Free downloads expose potential paying consumers to music, but do not reward the creators of the music initially. If artists can control when and if music is offered for free downloads, they may decide that the sacrifice of short-term income offsets a long-term increase in the audience for their music.