Ripped: How The Wired Generation Revolutionized Music

Music is a great place to show creativity and be yourself, right? But what happens whenever an artist pours all of his creativity into a song, and he puts it up for sale. Potential sales, in a perfect market, would be pretty high. But introduce file-sharing, and the sales are cut by about one third of the original amount. File-sharing is an activity in which one user downloads something from another user’s files. Online piracy stems from this, as one person downloads something, either legitimately or illegitimately, and then puts it up on some kind of site for others to download and use. Piracy comes into play when it is downloaded by another, and may even potentially find its way into the hands of someone who wants to claim it as their own,
The internet provided a place for music of all kind to be heard and sold for many people. Greg Kot, the author of “The Music Industry has been Revolutionized” asserts that the old music industry is dying out and the online market is growing every day. As a music critic and author of the book Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, he states, “With the old model of record labels, bands, and music distribution gradually disintegrating, fans and musicians have created many niche markets and communities on their own.” The online market is allowing for many artists and fans to find and make their own categories for
Many authors are having trouble dealing with their music being taken for another’s work. Sampling is the process of taking bits of another song and using it for your own. Maria Aragones, the author of Is Music Sampling Copyright Infringement?, explains that music sampling is the incorporation of outside, pre-recorded sections of music. As a writer for the IP Views, an online periodical hosted by Bengzon Negre Untalan, an intellectual property law office in Manila, Philippines, she states “Music sampling simply means incorporating pre-existing recordings into a new recording, whether part or all of a tune (a melody) and/or the lyrics. More often than not, sampling involves the incorporation of a short segment of a musical recording into a new musical recording.” So when an artist takes a part of another already produced song and incorporates it into their own new recording, it is called