P2P File Sharing: Moral or Immoral?

In recent years, technology, and more specifically the internet, has brought media into every home, easier than ever before. But it has also brought with it much conflict and debate. Peer-to-Peer, or P2P, file sharing allows for free and easy sharing of large file types over the internet between computers anywhere in the world. It makes big files available to anybody who cares to search for them and allows anybody to upload them online to be found. The conflict comes in where people upload content that then becomes illegal to download, such as music and movies. There now lies an issue of morality; can we download content that we would otherwise be required to pay for? And in the process possibly take down a whole industry? Its a debate that will not be easily answered and will probably go on until one side, either the media industry or the consumers, give in. In my project I plan to lay out the facts and stances of each side as well as give my own opinion of the matter, along with an explanation of the actual technology that provokes all this debate.