Interview Questions

Interview Questions

Legal vs. Illegal Music Streaming

This question may seem surprising but more and more, people are asking "what's so bad about downloading music for free?" The music industry has taken a tremendous hit in the last 10 years because of illegal music downloads.

1.       Do you download music?

2.       Do you illegally download music or do you buy music?

3.       If both, roughly how much would you say you use each?

a)      Is the quality of the music different between pirate music and music that you buy?

4.       What sites do you use to legally download and/or illegally download?

5.       How did you find out about these sites?

6.       How effective are these sites compared to one another, is an illegal website easier to use as opposed to a legal website?

7.       As a percentage, how long would you say you spend on these sites?

8.       Why do you think people would risk being fined for pirate music as opposed to just buying it?

9.       Do you believe that people could actually get in trouble for illegally downloading music or is that just a myth?

10.   Is it fair to say that the prices of music are expensive, especially as artists are already asking you to buy their album?

11.   What price would you say is a reasonable price for music?

12.   Why do you think that people wouldn’t support their favourite artist and buy their music as opposed to illegally downloading it?

13.   75% of the downloading communities who illegally download music are teenagers, why do you think this is?

14.   What is the attraction to getting something illegally?

15.   Do you think that illegal music streaming is affectively damaging the music industry as a whole?

16.   Do you believe that people would ever stop illegally downloading music?

a)      If so what suggestions would you have on ways the music industry or the download community as a whole could possibly do this?