Reading Log #1

The article is written by a college professor by the name of Phillip Gunderson. He does not specify whom his target audience is, but one one would assume that it would be targeted towards the "average joe" music listener, music producers, and artists; but Gunderson's word choice gives off the idea that the article is directed towards other college professors on his intellectual level. He is discussing Danger Mouses The Grey Album and how much the music industry has changed over the years and how easy it is for people to get music for free. His article appears in a scholarly journal. At first glance I do not agree with Gunderson. I use a peer to peer sharing software and I love it and from what he is saying, it seems as though he believes that the users of the technology should be punished for stealing. My rection is based on personal experiecenes. Like I previously stated, I use a peer to peer sharing software mainly because I don't want to spend all my money on CD's that I wll probably only listen to once or twice for certain songs. So why buy a whole CD when I can just download the songs I want to hear anyway? I think because I have this menatality, anything negative that Mr. Gunderson says about peer to peer sharing or mash ups I will strongly disagree with due to the fact that if it wasn't for all the different softwares and mash ups, I would not be as open as I am to listen to different genres of music. I would basically be stuck listeneing to one genre for probably the rest of my life. The main thing that throws me off about the article is his word choice. I have to sit with a dictionary just to understand what I'm reading and that really isn't something I'm used to having to do.