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Shafting has gone
The current conflict between the recording industry and a portion of its customers who are involved in illicit copying of music files arose from innovations involving the compression and electronic distribution of files over the internet. Some of the ethical challenges associated with responses that threaten further innovation, ultimately reduce the chances of finding solutions that hold appeal for all parties. Today’s world of the online web has provided new opportunities for both the creators and the consumers of media such as music. The digital aspect of the web allows for wonderful innovations such as MP3 players but ethical personal use must…
Advancements in today's technology have allowed users to access and use computer programs, movies, music and other multimedia for which they have not purchased. Technological advancements are coming along at such a quick pace that the enforcement of copyright laws cannot keep pace. Music piracy exploded in the late 1990's and caused groups such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to crack down on companies such as Napster that provided that provided free music downloads. The number of lawsuits against individuals who illegally download music has escalated to the point that people are now switching to legal internet sites that sell music downloads. The ethicality of this issue has touched many people throughout the world…
Two main recording artists Metallica and Dr. Dre have taken actions against Napster. They accused over three hundred thousand people on Napster for music piracy, which means they are stealing songs. There is a huge difference between sharing and stealing. All Napster did was to allow people share songs from one another. At some time somebody had to have bought that recording artists C.D., or it would not have ended up on the Napster network. People who have C.D. burners take it into their own hands to burn them. Burning songs from Napster onto your own C.D. is a copyright infringement, but Napster did not provide C.D. burners in their software the computers people own do. On Napster's web page, there is a warning about the copyright infringement laws. Recording artists feel they are being cheated, but record sales went up 2% since last…
The issue surrounding this problem arose when the Recording Industry Association of America claimed that Napster was basically giving out free music and was not paying the fees to issue "free" music. Napster claimed that all the music was shared among its users and were shared from computer to computer rather than a free website issuing free files for all to download. With the innovation of new technologies today, new problems will always come up due to better ways of getting things done. The same incident happened with the "new and improved" VCR. After fighting some battles, it was made legal for consumers to record from their own home and uses it for personal matters. Again, this situation is similar, but with more strings attached.…
In the short time that computers and internet have existed in the modern era, the world has seen a complete 360 degree turn and in the various forms of electronic entertainment that people all over the world are now using. In the days before CD’s, DVD’s and the internet, not much was said if a vinyl album (remember these?), VHS cassette (or these?) or an audio cassette was loaned to a friend for their listening / viewing pleasure, but today with the availability of sending an email with three or four megabytes (mb) of information, one can enjoy a borrowed song but is assumed that it is piracy or stealing. Is this a fair assumption? This Author will not give his opinion but rather discuss both sides of the Peer to Peer (P2P) downloading and sharing issues and let the reader form their own opinions.…
With so many Internet users currently sharing music, The Recording Industry Association of America considers downloading music from websites stealing. Yet people who are downloading mp3 for free think it’s not because they are downloading shared copies of mp3’s. Companies like Sony sell computers with ripping and burning capabilities, MP3 players, and other devices that gain much of their appeal from music sharing. So what is theft? Treating customers like thieves is a certain recipe for failure.…
The music recording industry is in trouble. For several years now, sales of new and popular music have steadily declined and show no sign of changing. The record companies are quick to blame the growing popularity of the Internet; music is being traded in a digital form online, often anonymously, with the use of file-sharing programs such as Morpheus, KaZaA, and Imesh, to name a few. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) succeeded in disbanding the pioneer Internet file-sharing program, Napster, but is facing confrontation with similar programs that are escaping American copyright laws. While there is an obvious connection between declining popular music sales and increasing file sharing, there is more going on than the RIAA wants to admit. I will show that the recording companies are overpricing their products, and not sufficiently using the Internet as an opportunity to market and sell their products. I shall begin by describing in greater detail the problem that the recording companies are facing, as well as the growing epidemic of online music trading. From there, I will show the correlation between the two and describe the other factors affecting record sales, and how these trends could be turned around to help the industry.…
Elaine McArdle said, “The music industry is struggling with a full blown crisis”. What could possibly be pushing the music industry into a crisis one might ask, illegally downloading free music. In the essay, Up on Downloading, three Harvard Law School professors are trying to come up with different solutions to this problem that is occurring. Now that our technology has become so advanced, many people are figuring out ways to cheat the system, and when people are not paying for the music they have downloaded, the artist is not getting paid. Artists are not the only one losing money but everyone involved producing the music is losing money as well. There is also less and less people going out and buying CD’s. I could probably not even remember the last time I purchased a CD. So how are the artists and producers suppose to make money when we are stealing from them? Zittrain, Nesson, and Fisher believe they could possibly have the solution to save the music industry.…
In “ In Defense of Piracy(Well, Some Piracy)”, Matthew Ruben states that it is alright to download mp3 in certain circumstances. He reasons firstly that the current marketing strategies of music are making people paying for albums they would not enjoy. He also reasons that between a dilemma of paying unreasonable price for a single and downloading, there is nothing ethically wrong to download than buying a whole CD just for a track. Thus, he reckons that pirating mp3 single can be a form of protest to the music industry on resisting hype. Though these reasons seem attractive, especially to the general public, Ruben has not taken into account of the devastating effects of piracy has on to the music industry and that piracy is flat, adulterated theft (Gary Locke, 2010).…
Some people think that it is perfectly fine to download music for free, but the majority of people know that it is illegal to do so. Joe Elliott works in the music industry and states “Napster is a form of theft. No doubt about it.” in a response to letter asking about how artist feel about it. Most people would argue and say that the artist do not care about how their music gets out because even with cutting the middleman out they still get their fair share of pay. The truth is most artist make their music thinking of their fans and try to use their platforms to influence people in a positive ways. It is nowhere near fair that artist are being robbed for their work when they try to help people express themselves through a feeling, a form of art like dance, or part of…
Whereas some individuals agree with downloading music being a form to promote artists and expand their fan base, most can stand with downloading music being a form of theft. Sophia, a student from Palmdale High, speaks out in favor of the issue by pointing out that free downloading “does not affect the profits that music industries make”. While this may be true for the music industry as a whole, individual artists do suffer significant financial losses from websites like Napster. At these sites millions can instantly download music illegally without any consequences. Users glorify Napster ,along with other sites similar, to the fact that Napster is perfect for expulsion of artists. A Palmdale High Student, Cassandra Brito, states, “Free downloads…
People, who produce this music online, put in excess amounts of energy, time, and money while getting nothing in return. In source 4, the artist asks, “do you think about the days, weeks, months- maybe even years- that we have to put into writing, practicing, recording, mixing, and distributing that song?” The frustrations of being taken advantage of are evident in this source. Artists want to share their music but cannot be giving it away for free. This is their living and it would be impossible for them to make any profit if everyone is just took part in online piracy. When people participate in online piracy, they are stealing work that has taken many hours and much money to produce.…
In the summer of 1999, a website, napster.com by Shawn Fanning, then an 18-year-old freshman computer science student at Northeastern University., was launched in the US, changing the global music industry forever. Napster was a system which enabled persons to locate music available in the MP3, and WMA1 music formats. The website made it possible for its users to freely share their music files through the Internet with other users around the world. however, Napster maintained a database of music files held on the computer hard-drives of other registered Napster users. this allowed a user, looking for a particular song to send a request to Napster, which the software then checked the availability of that song with this database, and if available, sent it to the user who requested it. The service became tremendously popular within a short span of time. The website involved 1.6 million simultaneous users during the height of its popularity in February 2000. Napster's offering of this 'peer-to-peer' technology was however robustly condemned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a trade group with record labels including, Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI Group and Bertelsmann AG. RIAA alleged that Napster was engaging in or assisting others in copying copyrighted music without payment or the express permission of the owners. RIAA also claimed that Napster would significantly damage the sales of the recording industry.…
Over six million people own apple iPhones in the United States. Many of them don't know the how to upload music to the iPhone. In the following essay I will walk you through the process on how to upload music on to the iPhone from a computer. The Items you will need Is a Computer, iPhone, and an iPhone Sync cable.…
The rise of Napster and the peer to peer (p2p) file sharing programs enable people all over the world to share music for free. In my opinion, shutting down the file sharing networks is the stupidest thing they could do. Furthermore, with all this hype about suing Napster and other such program manufacturers, the RIAA is denying the public from receiving factual information. I agree to the general downloading of music by the public, since far from destroying the industry, they in fact increase sales. I don't believe downloading a couple of mp3's falls into the category of theft or piracy. Stupid as it may seem, the record companies do. They reason that if you download even one song, you're classified the same as if you downloaded hundreds of songs.…