music piracy article

I got 99 problems and music piracy is one. It says up to 800,000 jobs in the creative industries, out of 1.8 million in total, are threatened. Record labels have been blaming the fall of their profits on illegal distribution of music. Nearly 75 percent of college students have downloaded music from the Internet. So how does this affect the music industry? Piracy was always an issue before file sharing program ever existed like Napster and LimeWire. There were piracy but it required a high level of technical expertise much of the time. So it did not have much a big impact as digital piracy.

However In June 1999, Napster was released as an unstructured centralized peer-to-peer system. Gnutella, eDonkey2000, and Freenet were released in 2000, as MP3.com and Napster were facing charges. Gnutella, released in March, was the first reorganised file sharing network. In July 2001, Napster was sued by several recording companies and lost in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster. Shortly after napster were shut down.

 More file sharing websites were introduced shortly after it making a massive impact as users did not need much skill level or know how to download music. Music sales have globally dropped from approximately $38 billion in 1999 to $32 billion in 2003. The RIAA, a powerful lobby for the recording industry, is responsible for carrying out most of the lawsuits against music piracy in the United States. Some claim that the enforcement against music piracy, which may cost copyright violators up to $150,000 per infringement. Around 3.6 million Australians illegally burnt a music CD in the 6 month period prior to the research. All kinds of backgrounds are not being paid for the professional work they have done. The loss to the economy has significant impact, including more than 111,000 jobs lost, $5. 67% of all the music downloaded is actually saved and listened to illegally. But however you look at it is like stealing something without permission.

However some may argue that by illegally downloading music you are actually giving the artist more fame it is not very different to burning cd. 70% of online users say they find nothing wrong with online piracy, and 63% of users admit to doing some illegal downloading. Most people say that they would not actually pay for the music initially if it was not free. Most people feel that artist make enough money already and if you are a true fan you would actually buy it. Artist also make money by doing tours and selling shirts and merchandise.

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