Mp3s a new age problem

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Music is beautiful, and the artists who create it are greatly appreciated. Music lets you escape reality or get you in touch with reality. Most people can relate to a lot of songs, the reason for this is because the artists who write the songs are in some way or another, just like you and me. In the last two years MP3's have become very popular over the Internet and on computers. The new fad deals with sharing MP3 files with other users by downloading the songs from their computer to yours. Is sharing songs between numerous users over the Internet a good or bad concept? Is it illegal and can you get into some legal trouble for doing this?

MP3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III, and is a compression format that shrinks audio files with only a small sacrifice in sound quality. MP3 files can be compressed at different rates, but the more they are scrunched, the worse the sound quality. So are they good or are they bad? Good of course! Well it depends on what you use your MP3 files for. If you use them on your own hard drive, for your own personal use and not on any other servers, then you're not a distributor. As long as you keep your MP3's in the privacy of your own hard drive and not on the web, i

t's okay, because you're relatively harmless. You get to download a song and make up your own play lists of songs that you enjoy, without having to go out and spend your money on a CD that you might not end up liking. In most cases, after you heard the songs on your computer and find a band that you're musically interested in, you'll buy that CD. One of the reasons that MP3's are so popular is because they come with so much convenience. Most people would rather download a song then run out to the nearest CD retailer to buy one.

If you are a recording artist and believe that sharing MP3's over the Internet is harming your lifestyle, most people can assure you that the danger barely exists. The CD retailers across Canada and the United States are still getting business from all of us MP3 maniacs because we love music. Music is such a huge part of people's lives that the end of CD or music retail is far down the road into the future where cars can fly. Music should be free because it was made for listeners not for music industries to play with. The only reason that artists confide in labels is because music has turned into an industry, involving money and promotion. So to all those MP3 sharers out there, don't give up if your favourite MP3 host gets shut down, fight back and look for another one, there's sure to be one on the web somewhere.

The famous sites that are hosting the sharing of MP3 files are Napster and MP3.com

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