The Benefits Of Censorship Of Music

Throughout the years, music has evolved and transformed in many ways. However, there are restrictions in today’s music, otherwise known as, censorships. A crisis has emerged concerning the issue of censorship. This argument consists of two possible stances: one, supporting the continuation of censorship, and two, eliminating the status quo of censorships in the music industry. There have been countless debates and arguments regarding the issues of censorship ever since the U.S. Congress passed the Radio Act in 1927 (The History). The time has arrived for censorship to be brought to an end. The government should release their grip on the censorship of music for the following reasons: it obstructs the public’s freedom of choice, it

When I was in middle school, the biggest way to get music for free was a website named Limewire. Nothing was more exciting than to be able to hear a song on the radio then go home and download it to our desktops. Also cool, was the fact that if one of us didn’t have a song, our friend could simply “burn” it onto a c.d. for us. That was the only way we knew how to get music, aside from going out and buying the whole album. Apple’s iTunes was just starting out and iPods were just being created. Limewire was the way to go. Little did we know that Limewire was illegal and costing singers, songwriters, labels, and everyone associated with just one song, huge amounts of money.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Even with sites like iTunes and Rhapsody offering legal downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing still exists. Illegally downloading music has had a significant impact on the music industry resulting in a loss of profits and jobs, and changing how music is delivered to the masses. (Adkins, n.d.) Showing that even having the ethically correct option P2P sharing of illegal media is still thriving. The RIAA reports that music sales in the United States have dropped

The music industry much like every other industry has found ways to connect their product to the people through technology. Now music is readily available to the public through many avenues ITunes, YouTube, and so much more. As music has become more available to the public the industry now faces the threat of illegal downloading and sharing of music files. Many people will purchase an album through a download site and then either post it for free download to others or distribute it to their friends; while those who do this don’t usually face consequence does that make it right?

Censoring music will limit the creativity and viewpoint of other people; which is causing our freedom of speech becoming eradicated and adds on to the shortcoming of understanding other people’s perspectives. People have different stances on life, and want to canvass the things that they lived through. This is where foul language and censorship is most debated.

Long gone are the days of fierce ruffians ruling the high seas, but in America, another plague is falling upon even our most upstanding. The aforementioned problem we face as a society is new-age internet piracy; even the most law-abiding citizens are falling prey to the allure of saving $1.29. The temptation may be there to break the law, but I plead to you, please pay for your music. How are the labels that represent our favorite musicians supposed to make money if we steal what their client worked tirelessly to create? If we as a society don’t fully respect the craft by paying full price, how are we supposed to expect the same amount of effort the next go around? J. Cole might as well have released 3 Your Eyez Only since we

I also believe that if you are a true fan of a certain music artist, then you should want to pay the money for their music and help support them in their music career. Downloading songs for free is disrespectful to music artists and takes away the meaning of hard work they put into all of their musical work. I would tell any friend of mine who supported illegal downloading that it’s illegal and if they really wanted to support that music artist, then they would buy the music and prove their support and passion for music by paying for it.

It is believed that illegal downloading does not affect the music industry and that recording artists are rich, so there is nothing wrong with grabbing a

Music piracy has been detrimental to the music industry and I believe it will only get worse with time. Music has become much easier for people to steal off the internet without paying the artist a dime. Technology continues to improve exponentially every year, because of these improvements in technology piracy has become much more accessible to music pirates. Overall album sales have gone down from 500 million units sold in 2007 to 200 million units sold in 2016. If this trend continues it will eliminate some of the smaller artists who depend on album sales to pay for studio time and other expenses. These lesser known artists also usually lack the funds to try to prosecute these music pirates and get their music off of the sites they are being

In today’s politically correct world I’m sure there’s a lot of music censorship goes on in our nation or in fact around the world. But in my post I chose to talk about something that I remember from when I was younger and that was when the straight out of Compton album released by the group NWA. In 1988 a sub genre of music dubbed gangster rap come from the underground into American mainstream, this type of music became quite popular among young African-Americans in the inner-city of America. It wasn’t until the music became popular with white suburban teenagers that the public in general stood up and took notice to try and censor this particular genre of music. In 1985 a committee was formed called the parents music resource Center (PMRC)

When people illegally download music they are robbing the artists of royalties. The fact that people are increasingly stealing music begs a further question of how slippery this slope is. Will the music industry stop making money altogether because people can just find a way to get their music illegally? While this is the far extreme it is important to note the far reaching implications of what this could mean for the industry. Striking losses of profits would cripple artists and everyone involved in producing or distributed the music. An example of how the music industry is losing profits on royalties is evident with the declining us of CDs. Today, the CD is becoming an outdated and inferior product that only true fans of an artist will seek out. Another example is when music is being purchased legally online. When consumers purchase online music it is almost always going to be a lower cost. As a consumer, you have the option to just buy the songs you like.

The downloading of songs using the Internet is a large source of income for musicians. Without this, they would not be earning as much as they currently are. If artists begin to lose money to pay record labels and advertisers, loyal fans end up paying more money to help support their favourite artists.

The world has gone from radios and CDs to downloading and streaming music. It is so simple now for someone to hear a song they like, look it up and install it, weather it's on an app such as Spotify, YouTube or the App Store. Although it is a luxury for the costumers we must also consider what it is doing to the artist career. The issue for the artist is the payments-per-stream of a song are much lower than what an artist would receive from a download. That's not fair for the hard working artist not to get his/hers full payment for their hard work and dedication.People get tired of hearing the same old songs on the radio, they can be considered "overplayed." So yes I can see why people would want to download songs instead of buying a CD,but "according to data journalist David McCandless, a signed solo artist would need about 5,478iTunes downloads of a song per month versus 4,200,000 YouTube streams per month just to make the U.S. minimum wage."

People pirate because it's so much easier than stealing and almost doesn't feel illegal when it's on the internet. Anyone can pirate music if you just google it pirate sites come up and you can pirate any song you want off youtube or any other source of music and download it on your device for free. Why would someone pirate music, well I have a statement from Stephen Witt. “You could get every song for free it felt like a certain free-for-all camaraderie and it felt like fun. That's what attitudes these pirates have when they do it. Most of people lack the information that what they're doing is wrong, that it's easy and fun to get what you want for free. It's easy to get lost when it seems so easy and fast, that most people that pirate music don't even think they're doing anything wrong or won’t be caught. That's why I think we need to help educate this matter like we do with all other things that are against the law, also help the resources trying to stop the sites that are up

Consumers and record producers also suffer the effects of music piracy. Consumers will feel an increase in concert ticket sales and legitimate album sales to compensate the artists for lost revenue due to internet music theft. Record producers will have less revenue to work with which is needed to scout and produce new talent. So, ultimately the consumer is hurt again because less money is available to "buy" new talent, so the music pool does not grow and music becomes stagnant.