Music Piracy still on despite the popularity of iTunes
November 30th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 67 times, 1 so far today
Music Piracy still on despite the popularity of iTunes
It does not require a genius to figure this out. Online piracy of music content is still popular and it still manages to beat the legal download services comprehensively. A report from analyst house JupiterResearch claims that an average consumer is three times likely to download a song illegally from the net than purchase it from any of the popular web based stores.
Apple iTunes is the market leader and they have even managed to enter the top 10 list of stores selling songs in America. Young users are more likely to download pirated music and most of these consumers are between 15 and 24 years-old. As per the report, 34 per cent of these users have little concept of music as a paid commodity.
Market experts also claim that despite the growing popularity of online music purchasing and lawsuits on illegal music downloading users, online piracy of digital music is expected to continue. Mark Mulligan, analyst at JupiterResearch said in a statement to a media group: “The momentum is with the legal services, there’s nothing to suggest legal file-sharing is going to go away. It’s a firmly entrenched behavior and the fact it’s free makes it more difficult.”
The research also found that most of the net users find audio CDs a bad value for money and prefers to copy from CDs than purchasing them.
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December 1st, 2005 at 4:27 am
Im a student at highschool and i deeply respect where the law is comeing from but the majority of the public is deffinatly likely to ignor anything the law gives against the illeagal downloading…why not just give up on trialing to ensure downloading be put to a stop? In my opinion it wont ever be and it shouldnt be attempted to over and over again, it takes time and money that isnt worth it. It also leaves families almost without anything.
December 1st, 2005 at 5:01 am
I totally agree with the above statement… I also think its wrong they will search through kids music to have them pay a fine. Music should be free because it gets people motivated and helps them find what kind of person they are. I’m pretty sure paying .99 to listen to a song is a little worse than paying nothing.
December 15th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Maybe people don’t realize this, but music is copyrighted and considered intellectual property. So stealing it is always liable to a civil suit. Music is not everyone’s property because along with a copyright you have sole ownership of whatever you created, in this case music, for your lifetime plus 70 years. So after that it can leagally enter public domain, like the internet, but before that it does not. This should be illegal because artists are putting their blood, sweat, and tears into their music and people just make a copy without appreciating what the creator did by paying a fee for it. And if music should be free because it helps people find who they are, then shouldn’t self-help books be free too then?