Self-study
Editor: Conclusion It is a myth that a significant amount of music on the Internet is the result of people downloading others’ music and reworking it into new music of their own. ██ ████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that it’s not true that a significant amount of music on the Internet is a result of people downloading others’ music and reworking it into music of their own. This is based on the fact that 99% of Internet users who download music don’t public new music of their own on the Internet.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author overlooks the possibility that a very small portion of music-downloaders can end up producing a large portion of music. So the 1% of people who download music and publish it can still create a significant amount of music by reworking others’ music.
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The editor’s reasoning is questionable ██ ████ ██
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This possibility shows that the author’s conclusion doesn’t follow from the premise. Even 1% of people using the Internet can produce a significant amount of new music, possibly by reworking the music of others.
b
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The author’s reasoning is based on the portion of people who actually publish music after downloading music. Whether publishing is easy has no bearing on the author’s reasoning, because we already know only a small % actually publish.
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We know that only a small % of people publish music after downloading music. The author believes this shows the origin of much Internet music is not from downloaders. Where the music really comes from is not part of what the author sets out to prove.
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If people who download music sometimes publish reworked music elsewhere, that doesn’t undermine the author’s argument. The author simply wants to show that there isn’t a lot of reworked music published on the Internet.
e
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The argument has nothing to do with what people “prefer” to listen to. The argument is about whether a lot of Internet music results from people downloading music and reworking it into music of their own.