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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

Table of content Table of content pages Introduction......................................................................................... 1 The internet piracy Napster case and other peer to peer system........... 1-3 What should be done to stop internet piracy or make it useful for companies......... 3-4 Conclusion..................

and artistic property does not work well in digital environment. Second, we are witnessing increasing difficulties for the effective enforcement of copyright law; the outcome of the most current copyright litigation against a P2P service provider, KaZaA is said to be in doubt. Third, the scale of audio piracy is happening in such a large scale by anonymous P2P users that chasing down each copyright infringement activity looks next to impossible. Nowadays, not only whether copyright is compatible with

Flash back to October, 1997. The punk rockers who call themselves Green Day prepare to release the much anticipated follow-up album to Dookie, Nimrod. Every kid between the ages of 10 and 20 is ready to pounce on the album when it hits stores. Every one of my friends begs their parents to take them to the store on that cold Tuesday morning. The older kids ditch class to get in line at the local Best Buy. The album sells 80,000 copies in the first week and over 2 million before the new Millennium

downloading music are common legal terms used in today's age to describe how to acquire music, however in less than twenty years ago the idea of file sharing was deemed a no-no. The introduction of MP3 files, file sharing networks such as Napster and Kazaa, and the widespread practice of illegally downloading copyrighted music files constituted a

the relationship is between the artists, recording companies, promoters and music stores on how they operate today. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks allowed free exchange of music files with companies like Napster and Kazaa was a big step that allowed consumers to store large libraries of music. With the cost of hard drive space going down; it allowed for pocket-sized computers to store more information in a smaller space that open the door for apple to step in with

Use of the Internet as a Tool for Piracy The internet is an ever increasingly powerful tool for finding everything from entertainment to reference to daily news. When first created, the internet was only a shadow of what it has become. Most people didn't even have a computer, let alone a connection to the internet. In the last decade, however, computers have become more and more affordable, and internet service providers have become far more widespread. According to the World Almanac and Book

than before they started swapping tunes online, although 15 percent of file swappers admitted to purchasing less music. About 50 percent of respondents said they spend the same amount of money as they did before they started using such services as Kazaa , Morpheus, Gnutella and Madster. In contrast, the study found that only 19 percent of respondents who do not use file-sharing

Music piracy is an infringement that involve the copying or selling of creative works that which the copyright owner, composer, or artist did not consent to. Before the invention of newer technology that allowed for the piracy process to become less difficult, music piracy was much easier to control. With this new and improved technology of the 21st century, users of the web began adding media files to the internet, which made all previous difficulties substantially less challenging. It was much

Who’s downloading? Throughout many years of the computer age there has been much advancement in computer technology. It first began with the people getting the Internet, then people began to understand the Internet, and then lastly people learned to overpower the Internet. Within the past several years the downloading music factor strongly took effect. To the majority of the internet population they tend to believe there’s nothing wrong with getting free tunes, but there is the select few who