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In college in the early 2000s, I used Napster to get tons of free music. It never occurred to me that this was wrong. It wasn’t until the huge Napster lawsuit decision in 2001 that I started thinking through how what I was doing was stealing from music artists. I was operating under sheer ignorance and thoughtlessness of how digital media made it easy for me to get free music. I think of this often and tell students how I will not let them be so ignorant – someone took the photograph that you copied and pasted into your report. Someone researched the words or had the idea you found on a random blog or article somewhere. I try to teach my students that information we so easily find on digital media has originated somewhere, and we need to give credit as credit is due, either in the form of citation or purchase.
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