Copyright and my understading

Copyright is the protection on certain things on the internet or any kind of media. Copyright applies to my life mostly because, each one of students do it almost everyday. Anytime one of us want a new song that just came out we go to one of the websites and it as simple as clicking download, anytime we want to watch a new movie that just hit the theaters we go to one of the MANY websites you can watch them for free. So should it be illegal? Yes, it really should be. Because, workers go out of there way to work as hard as they can on these things and yet we just watch everything they do hear everything for free. i think of it like this we would be upset if we went and worked all day and then someone else went in and told our boss they did it and get all of the credit.