Senior Project Online Source 2

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Is Piracy Really Killing the Music Industry?
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	N/A
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Roughly Drafted
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given	N/A
Date Page was Last Revised	7 March 2007
Date You Read It	5 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/708F20CD-E67D-45C7-AF95-3E1A6AC07C37.html

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

To most record labels, the only solution to ending music piracy is to "lock down music so users can't share the copies they buy" (Roughly Drafted).

Although most believe it is morally wrong to pirate music, the RIAA has some critics such as "people who don't want to be restricted in their use of purchased music" (Roughly Drafted).

According to the article, the rumor that "arguments that “ideas” like music have no value because they can be duplicated" is not true(Roughly Drafted).

The article truly believes that "the real customers are people who buy music" (Roughly Drafted).

The article finds that music labels are incorrectly approaching music piracy and offers an alternative such as "destroying the utility of online services by dumping poor quality downloads into them" as a better solution (Roughly Drafted).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
This Roughly Drafted article provides both positive and negative influences of music piracy on society and the music labels.  Most of the information includes alternative solutions to the current processes by which the music labels are approaching this issue.


Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
Roughly Drafted is a magazine based in San Francisco, California with a goal to inform the general public about technology and the world it is engulfed within.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
The author simply enjoys writing/blogging for this magazine for entertainment.  Roughly Drafted Magazine is written for pure intrigue in the subject.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I do not really detect much of a bias within the author's writing.  I feel that the author is trying to provide counterarguments to music piracy because most people only can see negative proponents with it.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author constantly refers to RIAA in his argument.  This adds an immense about of credibility to the article because RIAA is the music industry that represents the majority of music labels.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I plan to use this source to provide counterarguments to my opinion that music piracy can not only hurt music labels, but your wallet as well.