Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Digital Economy Working Paper 2013/04 Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data Luis Aguiar Bertin Martens 2013 Report EUR 25851 EN European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Contact information Address: Edificio Expo. C/ Inca Garcilaso‚ 3. E-41092 Seville (Spain) E-mail: jrc-ipts-secretariat@ec.europa.eu Tel.: +34 954488318 Fax: +34 954488300 http://ipts
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111.1 million files of music are pirated per day worldwide. People need to realize that online piracy is illegal. The artists get taken advantage of when people commit this crime. There are many risks that piracy entails. Many people would say online piracy is not a big deal because everyone participates in it‚ but they would be wrong. For these reasons‚ people should be prosecuted for online piracy. It is illegal to download music‚ software‚ and video off the internet‚ this material is copyrighted
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internet is considered “illegal”‚ then why do people have music sharing websites? There are about 500 online services located in 40 countries. With all these websites people should be allowed to download music and let it not be considered stealing. For example: If I walk into a record store‚ steal a CD and then walk out it is no longer there and no one can have it‚ it is gone. But on the other hand if I download a song off a music sharing website‚ many other people can do the same and it is also free
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james-greenwood.com American student Joel Tenenbaum was taken to court for downloading and sharing songs using the peer-to-peer file sharing program Kazaa. Under US law‚ recording companies are entitled to $750 to $30‚000 per infringement‚ or more if the jury believes the infringements were wilful. In the first case of this kind‚ a Minnesota jury awarded $80‚000 per song‚ amounting to $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. Joel was found guilty and ordered to pay $675‚000 (£404‚000). He now must
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to download on poor connections‚ the ability to pause and resume downloads‚ downloading files from a specific site automatically (updates) and the handling of many connections at once in order to make the download faster. A solid example of a download manager is that of Flashgot. In order to transfer files from one user to another‚ the network (the internet in most cases) uses a protocol known as FTP or file transfer protocol. However‚ FTP is not designed to be a secure protocol and has many weaknesses
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surrounding the movie and music industries as they relate to the Internet? 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
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people would rather buy the cheaper copied CDs than the more expensive official ones. Also‚ from the law‚ it states that one may make a copy of his/her own CD for their personal use. That means he/she may record it to a cassette tape or rip it to MP3 files. One may not‚ however‚ give this copy to another person. Many people believe that if no money is involved‚ then no law has been broken. This is false. Whether you give the copy away or sell it‚ this is still a violation of copyright law. For the people
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Assembly at Columbia University‚ people who frequently download music without paying for it end up buying 30% more music than everybody else. It is not surprising that heavy-duty downloaders are huge music fans‚ thus even if they download numerous files‚ they pour money in the musical industry by buying the album they want to support. The same point of view can be found in movies piracy as well. For instance‚ David Kaplan‚ Chief of Anti-Piracy Operations at Warner Bros.‚ has come out in defence
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Ritmoteca ’s inception‚ the peer-to-peer file sharing service named Napster opened its virtual doors to listeners across the world at the price of nothing [2]. At its peak‚ Napster had over 80 million users across the globe [3]. The service ’s popularity sparked a great deal of controversy‚ as the artists whose music was being downloaded for free felt they deserved to be compensated. Naturally‚ dozens of lawsuits followed‚ resulting in Napster ’s peer-to-peer file sharing system to be shut down. However‚
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