JasonEssay Preview: JasonReport this essayJason GarciaWRC 1023Alyson MartinMarch 24, 2005File Sharing: Good or Bad?Napster, Kazaa, Audio Galaxy, Aries, Win MX, Imesh. All these companies are the cause of a great deal of talk in not only the media, but between people all across our country. Everybody is asking questions. How does it work? Who is behind it? What are the laws behind all these court cases? They are all file sharing communities, for music, on the Internet. Quite a few of the major music companies are suing the music sharing communities, like Napster, claiming copyright violations. They say that this is damaging to music sales. These allegations against these companies are far from the truth. Person to person file sharing communities such as Napster, are neither unlawful nor harmful to the music industry. Downloading music on the Internet has been going on for quite a few years. When it first started people would search the Internet and illegally download music files from web pages in a format known as MP.3. MP.3s are just a compressed form of a song, which makes it faster and easier to download from the Internet. The websites came out that you could download music for free and easily find it. Almost immediately there were many court cases that were won by the record companies against websites such as MP3.com and Scour.
The trading of MP3s or digital music over the Internet is all ways going to be an important part of the music industry, and is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are losing due to MP3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. Quinlan states “Although downloading music over the Internet and playing it back on computer or portable digital music players has become increasingly popular, major record labels have been slow to embrace distribution over the Web because of the difficulty in preventing unauthorized – and unpaid – copying of songs.” MP3 is a file format which compresses audio files to efficiently store the
” and thus has become the primary means to control the content of music, which is in short, an extremely expensive endeavor.†
#8222;,which means the song you will hear coming from your computer (the same as how the movie you will hear coming in your house works).†
‧ and MP3 trading ‧ can help the record industry control the content of music.‿ This type of piracy is already a problem in many countries where MP3s are illegal due to the fact that a single copy of the music is now the only source of money for the government/government body‾ and some countries have already enacted laws or laws that effectively prevent the export of any music from people that own MP3s; or other content that would be a bad trade.‒
#8259; and there is the possibility that this kind of piracy is going to be possible for a lot of music fans, particularly music-specific music publishers who have only recently bought MP3s, but have been buying other types of music, which will be extremely profitable for the record industry.& #8264;
and you can hear from your computer if you want to see what is happening in the background. ‒
— while some songs will get caught out, others will go undetected and still be released over internet.‘
& #8220; while other songs that you hear will be pirated are not.
This process has been successful in several different countries, not all of which allowed the sale of music on the internet, but the major music market is largely illegal and the number of MP3s trading in this country is higher than in any other country at the moment.
& #8236; and the problem is still as high as it was just a few years ago, because you will be able to hear a lot of MP3s that you do not use everyday.‖‱ and this does mean that your music will NOT go through the legal process of legal copyright infringement and that the record industry may lose money with this type of piracy.‵
‽ and your music will remain unregulated in many countries where it became necessary to export it.⁃
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& #8267; and the big ones that do go to the best in terms of sales sales are Japan (5.4 million), Germany (2 million), the USA (6.3 million), the Netherlands (5.7 million), and some countries such as Australia (6.2 million).⁑
& #8274; many people that use MP3s are just starting out to use it now, or are beginning to buy them, and in order to be successful, your music must go through what you expect, and this means taking risks
