Piracy
Thursday, October 8, 2009 by j001
Since personal audio players came onto the market, the media that can be played on them has developed in several ways. From cassettes, to cds, minidiscs, and finally around the year 1999, mp3 players.
When cds were the main seller, the music industry tried the "Burn and Get Burnt" campaign, with sticker on every cd purchased. Hoping to deter people from copying cds for their friends, or worse, selling them for personal profit.
With mp3 players and the introduction of the popular ipod, media and file sharing via the internet has become a new way for stealing music. A woman has recently faced charges for the illegal file sharing of 24 songs, ending in her being fined $220000 in total (approx $9000 per song), when she could have been fined up to $150000 per song. However, it is the labels that receive this money and artists do not get anything for their music being ripped off.
Though piracy is strong in the music industry it is still behind the times for movies. When a cd come out you can go and burn it and get perfect quality songs to share with the world wide web. But if a new movie comes out, you need someone to sneak in with a camera. The quality is always sub-par and there are people walking in and out of frame. The only way for movies to be reproduced involves either and 'inside man' or waiting for the dvd, by which time people might not want to watch it anymore.
The music industry as well as the art websites and some sites that offer articles/ opinion pieces are copyrighted as intellectual property, and all are subject to piracy.
When cds were the main seller, the music industry tried the "Burn and Get Burnt" campaign, with sticker on every cd purchased. Hoping to deter people from copying cds for their friends, or worse, selling them for personal profit.
With mp3 players and the introduction of the popular ipod, media and file sharing via the internet has become a new way for stealing music. A woman has recently faced charges for the illegal file sharing of 24 songs, ending in her being fined $220000 in total (approx $9000 per song), when she could have been fined up to $150000 per song. However, it is the labels that receive this money and artists do not get anything for their music being ripped off.
Though piracy is strong in the music industry it is still behind the times for movies. When a cd come out you can go and burn it and get perfect quality songs to share with the world wide web. But if a new movie comes out, you need someone to sneak in with a camera. The quality is always sub-par and there are people walking in and out of frame. The only way for movies to be reproduced involves either and 'inside man' or waiting for the dvd, by which time people might not want to watch it anymore.
The music industry as well as the art websites and some sites that offer articles/ opinion pieces are copyrighted as intellectual property, and all are subject to piracy.