File Sharing: Good Vs. Bad In recent articles about file sharing‚ a few things have become very clear. What is the reason that the government and recording artists don’t want you to share music files? Sure it has something to do with the lack of tax dollars it produces for the government and the loss in income for recording artists‚ but it also has a lot to do with the time and effort put forth to make these albums. In a recent article "Music industry worried about CD burning"
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Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing: What is the risk? Every day‚ millions of computer users share files online. Whether it is music‚ games‚ or software‚ file-sharing can give people access to a wealth of information. You simply download special software that connects your computer to an informal network of other computers running the same software. Millions of users could be connected to each other through this software at one time. The software often is free and easily accessible. Sounds promising‚ right
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WHY MUSIC FILE SHARING SHOULD BE LEGAL ATTENTION A. How many of you guys ever listened to downloaded music? Of course you have‚ who hasn’t? I remember back in the early 2000s when you could go to the record store and buy singles‚ right before they started to phase them out forcing people to buy full albums. I also remember a time that I went to the store to buy some singles‚ and I realized that they were no longer being sold‚ so the only alternative was to buy the album‚ which I couldn’t afford
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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis * Felix Oberholzer Koleman Strumpf Harvard Business School UNC Chapel Hill foberholzer@hbs.edu cigar@unc.edu March 2004 Abstract A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific
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the Internet are a gateway to endless information. People can find just about anything on the Internet with the click of just a few buttons. File sharing was introduced in the late 70’s and since then‚ has continued to grow. It boomed in the 90’s with the introduction of mp3 files. There are millions of people who use file sharing in legal ways. However‚ that number is masked by the amount of people who abuse the concept of file sharing and downloaded copyrighted material such as music or movies
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Banning File Sharing Sites In an article found in Just do IP (Issue 42‚ August 25‚ 2000) Talal Shamoon states‚ "People are copying music because they feel somewhat disenfranchised with the options they have at their disposal in the digital space. It’s up to the content industry to create value in the digital arena and they’ve made phenomenal steps in that direction." District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (http://www.riaa.com/) (RIAA)
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Relevance of empirical analysis of the File Sharing vs. Music Piracy controversy The music industry has been vehement in its condemnation of Internet file sharing programs like Kazaa‚ eDonkey‚ Limewire et al‚ citing the technology as a primary contributor to the drop in record sales . While file sharing does make piracy of copyrighted digital goods easier‚ the link between drop in record sales and increase in file sharing activity is tenuous at best (Zentner‚ 2004). Empirical investigations with
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For Music Sharing 1. Don’t want the whole CD * Sometimes a CD only has a few songs that are good * They are expensive Artists are for music sharing * Many artists support file sharing. Janis Ian -"The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading. Nonsense." Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore -"Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is
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How the Internet Changed the Music Industry COM/156 September 11‚ 2011 Large music labels have made statements since the late 1990s regarding the Internet’s damage to music sales through piracy by showing the decline of CDs sold year over year. However‚ the music labels themselves did not realize the sales opportunities that could be provided by the Internet and only saw a damaging environment. The same music labels also neglected to take advantage of the Internet as a new venue to find popular
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During the last years‚ music‚ movies and TV programmes have been downloaded for free from Internet affecting CDs sales‚ TV programmes and movie rights. So‚ is this harming artists and TV corporations or helping them? Many people argue that downloading music from internet is not just illegal but morally wrong because you are stealing the artist who has put a lot of effort into that music that you are stealing. If you believe that you should not steal from an old shoemaker‚ who works because he
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