The Benefits Of Censorship Of Music

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 people buy music, they get legal rights to that purchase, known as Intellectual Property (IP). But some people do not like to buy music. Whether they know it or not, they use piracy as their way to get music. They use softwares, look music up on the internet, or find somebody selling it. Piracy can be destructive to people or organizations like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). People

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

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."

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)

There are many artists who work hard to make their products but are rewarded with lesser than what the would have made if there were no piracy. In source 4 “A Musician’s rant”, “It would be fabulous if I could share my music for free, but believe it or not I have to eat (Source 4)"! If people were enforcing the law and making music available for everybody and not just people who are well off, then the others would not have to copy their products. The fact that poverty is an enormous issue in the world raises gigantic flags. This is why most of the world (those millions that were mentioned earlier) are copying music for their enjoyment what else would they be doing; riding in their Mercedes Benz collecting their 50,000 checks every month? Alma Mandelssohn conjures, “Let’s make sure that music and other files are easily available for low prices on legitimate sites, and that when people download from bootleg sources they get fined a small amount, but every single time (Source

Music streaming has had the word “piracy” referred to people stealing music and money from the musicians and their management team for years. In the article “Streaming Showdown: Apple Music vs. Spotify vs. Pandora vs. Rdio” John Pullen pointed out that in 2001, the iPod sparked the music steaming industry (Pullen Pg.1). In the iPod’s early days was when all of this music piracy started when people discovered how to obtain music for free. However, many music files found on iTunes, iMusic, Amazon and Sound Cloud are purchased and downloaded legally, whereas some new music downloads may be advertised as a free download by the artist themselves. This method of offering a free song to the app subscriber is decided by the artist and their label.

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

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.

Music piracy is the act of illegally downloading music for free, bilking sites such as iTunes and iMesh that lawfully sell music to millions of people worldwide. It is one of the most frequently committed crimes. According to an article in the newspaper ‘The Guardian’ in 2009, ninety-five per cent of music available online is downloaded illegally with no payments made to the artist and over 40 billion files were illegally shared in 2008. It may be a free service but is it ethical? Is it something that society should continue to do or something that should be discouraged?