When you ask someone have they every stolen a day in their life the first thing that comes to mind is an image of someone robbing a bank, stealing a car, or robbing a home of its possessions, then they would automatically answer no. However, is that really the truth? People fail to take into account that stealing is defined as taking (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it. So, if you have ever plagiarize from a site and use it as your own, that’s stealing. If you have ever utilized a file sharing websites for illegal downloading, that’s stealing. People fail to notice the correlation between stealing someone car to illegally downloading music because taking someone’s possessions means…show more content… Green, he brushes on the issues about why people see a difference in stealing something tangible and something intangible, for example he states “Form its earliest days, the crime of theft has been understood to involve the misappropriation of things real and tangible. For Caveman Bob to “steal” from Caveman Joe meant that Bob had taken something of value from Joe – say, his favorite club – and that joe, crucially, no longer had it. Everyone recognized, at least intuitively, that theft constituted what can loosely be defined a zero-sum game; what Bob gained, Joe Lost.” When people steal a song by downloading it, they don’t have a physical object in their hands to remind them of the act, which tests their morals. As technology evolves the laws must be changeable to because different aspects starts to arrive. To further expand on this, Green says that the laws have to adjust because it has to cover up the misappropriation of the meaning of “property”, so it would not matter if it’s tangible or intangible is all now treated uniformly (i.e., if something you cannot touch you steal it still treated as if you stole something you can…show more content… From my past experience, my school mates have all had music on their IPod that they download from a file sharing site, in addition, people would tell other where they got it from and no one consider them as a bad person, but when my friend stole the teacher’s phone she was known as morally depraved. People see no connection in a decrease of morality when your caught downloading music because music to is consider nonessential. Also, Green explains we should stop trying to force the problem of illegal downloading into a moral and legal system. People don’t seem to have the problem with illegal downloads even though it is a crime, for example, the court case MGM Studios vs. Grokster, MGM studios suggested that IPods validity is different from Grokster, Souter replied "I know perfectly well that I can buy a CD and put it on my iPod. But I also know if I can get music without buying it, I'm going to do
