The Right to Online Music Sharing
It's 10 PM at night, and you're downloading a hit song from one of your new favorite bands. If certain companies and industry heads get there way, this will soon be impossible. As the Internet has grown in the past five years into a source for vast amounts of information and knowledge, the people have changed it, molded it for their own wants and needs. It is because of this that it is possible to get music for free from programs such as Kazaa, Imesh, or the most popular and controversial one, Napster. The principle leader of this, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is extremely against this, and for no reason, for it is impossible to stop all forms of it. It's obviously not hurting everyone, especially seeing music stars are already making millions of dollars. Therefore, they should stop pursuing this never-ending battle, for they will never prevail. First of all, there are so many different search engines to use to find music. It's almost everyday that a new program is uploaded to the Internet and downloaded by thousands, even millions of users. Every time a program or site is shutdown for distributing such software, another one is created and brought to users that have access all over the world. T
Analysts report that just one of the many peer-to-peer systems in operation is responsible for over 1.8 billion unauthorized downloads per month. Nevertheless, who's to say that people weren't actually sampling the songs and later going out to their local music store to buy the CD? In addition, what if the music is no longer available, or it wasn't available on CD if they did not have a record player? What if they only like one of a bands hit songs, or they need to use a song for a class project, should they have to buy the full CD at $15 a piece? These people should have the right to go online to a sharing program and download it, just for that one use, especially if that certain artist isn't well known, or they're an 'underground artist'. The one thing that makes or breaks an artist is exposure. Without exposure, no one comes to shows, no one buys CD's, no one enables you to earn a living doing what you love ("Ian"). If there is a major artist who wants a single released to the world by putting it on their website, they will not be able to, especially if the RIAA gets what they want. With these amazing technological advances, the music industry should be uplifted with joy. Instead, they're more worried about stop
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