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Are MP3's a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us?
Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top.
"Everyone using MP3's feels they have the inalienable right to use the product" (According to Brian Robertson, President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
Free Music is good right?
So why is there all this fuss?
MP3's are widely used by people on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP3 technology. This is mainly because fewer people are buying the legal music from record stores.
Now that the problem is here...
'The Internet police' are on the patrol to find these illegal distributors of music and put them to a stop... but is it a lost cause?
MP3's are highly compressed, CD-quality, sound files. They have become the most commonly used unofficial file format, which is downloadable from the Internet. The only requirement you need to play an MP3 is a program like Winamp (www.winamp.com) or Microsoft Windows Media Player. The Internet allows users to download songs (in MP3 format) in a matter of minutes without paying any money from Programs like KaZaa or Morpheus. This compressed MP3 technology is popping up everywhere on the Internet. There is almost no music site that you can go to where an MP3 of some sort is not being offered. All you have to do is login and download. MP3's are breaking copyright laws and are a part of online piracy. Online piracy is playing, or downloading, songs and lyrics without authorization and without paying tribute to the artists, on the Internet.
Ownership Rights
Firstly, the songwriter or music publisher typically owns this copyright and secondly Copyright in the sound recording, which is a recording of a performer singing or playing the particular song. The record company usually owns this copyright. Therefore, the only legal way to copy, download, and upload an MP3 is to get permission, from the artist, which every user either forgets to do, or doesn?t even bother.
This is the primary cause for the war of legal rights that goes on today, because free is good right? Wrong! Having free MP3?s on the Internet creates a problem. The problem is that millions and millions of dollars are lost everyday to all of the musicians that make the music possible
Why so Small?
When people download MP3's from the Internet, they choose to ignore the copyright laws because the disclaimers are all written in font sizes under 10pts at the bottom of the page and realistically who have the time to read these?
Why do these sites put the font's so small, some people cannot be bothered to read the small print...(anyone heard of contracts?) maybe they want the people to download them? They would certainly get a lot of visits to their sites, the incentive of success is too tempting.
Any Possible Solution?
Companies need to use marketing techniques to lure users into their sites to actually pay for music even though the net is filled with illegal web sites distributing the product for free. Vorton Corp, for example, lures up to 50,000 visitors a day just for selling CD's at reasonable prices. The number of sales for Vorton Corp. increases as the illegal downloads decrease. Organizations, all over the web, have full-time employees surfing the Internet all day looking for offending MP3 sites. Artists and recording companies are losing the money they should make from their hard and creative work because of illegal downloading of MP3's.
Summary
The battle is just beginning. People need to know that even though it is easy to get MP3 files for free. They are creating the artists and the recording companies, and are breaking the law. Although MP3 files seem like a friend, they are really everyone's foe.
Please share your views on this Subject.
Thanks for Reading.
Neo.
Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top.
"Everyone using MP3's feels they have the inalienable right to use the product" (According to Brian Robertson, President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
Free Music is good right?
So why is there all this fuss?
MP3's are widely used by people on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP3 technology. This is mainly because fewer people are buying the legal music from record stores.
Now that the problem is here...
'The Internet police' are on the patrol to find these illegal distributors of music and put them to a stop... but is it a lost cause?
MP3's are highly compressed, CD-quality, sound files. They have become the most commonly used unofficial file format, which is downloadable from the Internet. The only requirement you need to play an MP3 is a program like Winamp (www.winamp.com) or Microsoft Windows Media Player. The Internet allows users to download songs (in MP3 format) in a matter of minutes without paying any money from Programs like KaZaa or Morpheus. This compressed MP3 technology is popping up everywhere on the Internet. There is almost no music site that you can go to where an MP3 of some sort is not being offered. All you have to do is login and download. MP3's are breaking copyright laws and are a part of online piracy. Online piracy is playing, or downloading, songs and lyrics without authorization and without paying tribute to the artists, on the Internet.
Ownership Rights
Firstly, the songwriter or music publisher typically owns this copyright and secondly Copyright in the sound recording, which is a recording of a performer singing or playing the particular song. The record company usually owns this copyright. Therefore, the only legal way to copy, download, and upload an MP3 is to get permission, from the artist, which every user either forgets to do, or doesn?t even bother.
This is the primary cause for the war of legal rights that goes on today, because free is good right? Wrong! Having free MP3?s on the Internet creates a problem. The problem is that millions and millions of dollars are lost everyday to all of the musicians that make the music possible
Why so Small?
When people download MP3's from the Internet, they choose to ignore the copyright laws because the disclaimers are all written in font sizes under 10pts at the bottom of the page and realistically who have the time to read these?
Why do these sites put the font's so small, some people cannot be bothered to read the small print...(anyone heard of contracts?) maybe they want the people to download them? They would certainly get a lot of visits to their sites, the incentive of success is too tempting.
Any Possible Solution?
Companies need to use marketing techniques to lure users into their sites to actually pay for music even though the net is filled with illegal web sites distributing the product for free. Vorton Corp, for example, lures up to 50,000 visitors a day just for selling CD's at reasonable prices. The number of sales for Vorton Corp. increases as the illegal downloads decrease. Organizations, all over the web, have full-time employees surfing the Internet all day looking for offending MP3 sites. Artists and recording companies are losing the money they should make from their hard and creative work because of illegal downloading of MP3's.
Summary
The battle is just beginning. People need to know that even though it is easy to get MP3 files for free. They are creating the artists and the recording companies, and are breaking the law. Although MP3 files seem like a friend, they are really everyone's foe.
Please share your views on this Subject.
Thanks for Reading.
Neo.
Well, this is a tired arguement if ever i've seen one.
Of course MP3s are great, anyone that says otherwise is a complete idiot, without them the web would be much slower, Flash movies...etc
Also people like Eminem who said people an't buying albums from him, instead they just download the MP3s, well that crap, it was proven by Napster that most album sales increased after MP3s and most people replied with, I bought the album so I could listen to it in my room/car/friend's house, granted there are CDRs now and more people burn MP3s onto them but thats a minority.
There are soooooo many reasons why MP3s are good for the music industry, I can't think of one why you'd want to stop them.
Also one of the arguements is, the record industries own most of the MP3 sharing software so they actually make money from it, you'd probably find a lot more shared MP3s if everyone could afford/be bothered to find a MP3 converter as most people buy albums but never convert them.
Why did you bother posting this in here?
Of course MP3s are great, anyone that says otherwise is a complete idiot, without them the web would be much slower, Flash movies...etc
Also people like Eminem who said people an't buying albums from him, instead they just download the MP3s, well that crap, it was proven by Napster that most album sales increased after MP3s and most people replied with, I bought the album so I could listen to it in my room/car/friend's house, granted there are CDRs now and more people burn MP3s onto them but thats a minority.
There are soooooo many reasons why MP3s are good for the music industry, I can't think of one why you'd want to stop them.
Also one of the arguements is, the record industries own most of the MP3 sharing software so they actually make money from it, you'd probably find a lot more shared MP3s if everyone could afford/be bothered to find a MP3 converter as most people buy albums but never convert them.
Why did you bother posting this in here?
Are MP3's a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us?
Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top.
"Everyone using MP3's feels they have the inalienable right to use the product" (According to Brian Robertson, President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
Free Music is good right?
So why is there all this fuss?
MP3's are widely used by people on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP3 technology. This is mainly because fewer people are buying the legal music from record stores.
Now that the problem is here...
'The Internet police' are on the patrol to find these illegal distributors of music and put them to a stop... but is it a lost cause?
MP3's are highly compressed, CD-quality, sound files. They have become the most commonly used unofficial file format, which is downloadable from the Internet. The only requirement you need to play an MP3 is a program like Winamp (www.winamp.com) or Microsoft Windows Media Player. The Internet allows users to download songs (in MP3 format) in a matter of minutes without paying any money from Programs like KaZaa or Morpheus. This compressed MP3 technology is popping up everywhere on the Internet. There is almost no music site that you can go to where an MP3 of some sort is not being offered. All you have to do is login and download. MP3's are breaking copyright laws and are a part of online piracy. Online piracy is playing, or downloading, songs and lyrics without authorization and without paying tribute to the artists, on the Internet.
Ownership Rights
Firstly, the songwriter or music publisher typically owns this copyright and secondly Copyright in the sound recording, which is a recording of a performer singing or playing the particular song. The record company usually owns this copyright. Therefore, the only legal way to copy, download, and upload an MP3 is to get permission, from the artist, which every user either forgets to do, or doesn?t even bother.
This is the primary cause for the war of legal rights that goes on today, because free is good right? Wrong! Having free MP3?s on the Internet creates a problem. The problem is that millions and millions of dollars are lost everyday to all of the musicians that make the music possible
Why so Small?
When people download MP3's from the Internet, they choose to ignore the copyright laws because the disclaimers are all written in font sizes under 10pts at the bottom of the page and realistically who have the time to read these?
Why do these sites put the font's so small, some people cannot be bothered to read the small print...(anyone heard of contracts?) maybe they want the people to download them? They would certainly get a lot of visits to their sites, the incentive of success is too tempting.
Any Possible Solution?
Companies need to use marketing techniques to lure users into their sites to actually pay for music even though the net is filled with illegal web sites distributing the product for free. Vorton Corp, for example, lures up to 50,000 visitors a day just for selling CD's at reasonable prices. The number of sales for Vorton Corp. increases as the illegal downloads decrease. Organizations, all over the web, have full-time employees surfing the Internet all day looking for offending MP3 sites. Artists and recording companies are losing the money they should make from their hard and creative work because of illegal downloading of MP3's.
Summary
The battle is just beginning. People need to know that even though it is easy to get MP3 files for free. They are creating the artists and the recording companies, and are breaking the law. Although MP3 files seem like a friend, they are really everyone's foe.
Please share your views on this Subject.
Thanks for Reading.
Neo.
Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top.
"Everyone using MP3's feels they have the inalienable right to use the product" (According to Brian Robertson, President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
Free Music is good right?
So why is there all this fuss?
MP3's are widely used by people on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP3 technology. This is mainly because fewer people are buying the legal music from record stores.
Now that the problem is here...
'The Internet police' are on the patrol to find these illegal distributors of music and put them to a stop... but is it a lost cause?
MP3's are highly compressed, CD-quality, sound files. They have become the most commonly used unofficial file format, which is downloadable from the Internet. The only requirement you need to play an MP3 is a program like Winamp (www.winamp.com) or Microsoft Windows Media Player. The Internet allows users to download songs (in MP3 format) in a matter of minutes without paying any money from Programs like KaZaa or Morpheus. This compressed MP3 technology is popping up everywhere on the Internet. There is almost no music site that you can go to where an MP3 of some sort is not being offered. All you have to do is login and download. MP3's are breaking copyright laws and are a part of online piracy. Online piracy is playing, or downloading, songs and lyrics without authorization and without paying tribute to the artists, on the Internet.
Ownership Rights
Firstly, the songwriter or music publisher typically owns this copyright and secondly Copyright in the sound recording, which is a recording of a performer singing or playing the particular song. The record company usually owns this copyright. Therefore, the only legal way to copy, download, and upload an MP3 is to get permission, from the artist, which every user either forgets to do, or doesn?t even bother.
This is the primary cause for the war of legal rights that goes on today, because free is good right? Wrong! Having free MP3?s on the Internet creates a problem. The problem is that millions and millions of dollars are lost everyday to all of the musicians that make the music possible
Why so Small?
When people download MP3's from the Internet, they choose to ignore the copyright laws because the disclaimers are all written in font sizes under 10pts at the bottom of the page and realistically who have the time to read these?
Why do these sites put the font's so small, some people cannot be bothered to read the small print...(anyone heard of contracts?) maybe they want the people to download them? They would certainly get a lot of visits to their sites, the incentive of success is too tempting.
Any Possible Solution?
Companies need to use marketing techniques to lure users into their sites to actually pay for music even though the net is filled with illegal web sites distributing the product for free. Vorton Corp, for example, lures up to 50,000 visitors a day just for selling CD's at reasonable prices. The number of sales for Vorton Corp. increases as the illegal downloads decrease. Organizations, all over the web, have full-time employees surfing the Internet all day looking for offending MP3 sites. Artists and recording companies are losing the money they should make from their hard and creative work because of illegal downloading of MP3's.
Summary
The battle is just beginning. People need to know that even though it is easy to get MP3 files for free. They are creating the artists and the recording companies, and are breaking the law. Although MP3 files seem like a friend, they are really everyone's foe.
Please share your views on this Subject.
Thanks for Reading.
Neo.