dc.contributor.advisor	Hudson, Robert	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Cheng, Hongming	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Crossley, David	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Buschert, William	en_US
dc.creator	Sabine, Jeff	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-07-11T09:34:48Z	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-04T04:43:21Z
dc.date.available	2010-08-17T08:00:00Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2013-01-04T04:43:21Z
dc.date.created	2009	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009	en_US
dc.date.submitted	2009	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Downloading information from the Internet is an incredibly popular activity. Some of the information is used for scholarly or educational purposes, some is used for entertainment, as well as all sorts of other purposes. Books, movies, video games, and music are being downloaded by an increasing number of Internet users. Some of these digital files contain information that is perfectly legal to use and share but a great majority of these files are illegal to download. Recent technological developments in digital and Internet technologies have made the downloading of both legal and illegal digital content very easy and very fast. These technological developments have brought about a tension between two conflicting interests among Internet users. One of these interests drives people to download content illegally and the other interest drives people to act in ways intended to stop such illegal downloading. Much legal attention has been given to this issue in the past few years, but little sustained philosophical attention. In this thesis I discuss the moral issues that come along with the illegal downloading of information via the Internet with a focus on music files. I present the issue of illegal music downloading through the use of a scalar utilitarian theory with a focus on preference satisfaction. I conclude that the act of downloading is in aggregate morally permissible, and further, that the status quo bundle of intellectual property rights (copyright) that protect these files should be removed. Also, I provide a rough sketch of how all people concerned can satisfy both of the conflicting interests (mentioned above) through the use of copyleft protections.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-07112009-093448	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	intellectual property	en_US
dc.subject	ethics	en_US
dc.subject	file sharing	en_US
dc.subject	scalar utilitarianism	en_US
dc.subject	digital piracy	en_US
dc.title	Is Music File Sharing Immoral? A Scalar Utilitarian Account.	en_US
dc.type.genre	Thesis	en_US
dc.type.material	text	en_US
thesis.degree.department	Philosophy	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Philosophy	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Saskatchewan	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (M.A.)	en_US

Is Music File Sharing Immoral? A Scalar Utilitarian Account.

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