... biggest enemies, and the reason why is money. When someone can download a song for free he or she is less likely to go out and buy that CD. There are many social benefits that come from downloading music if you are a Napster lover. If you have the right equipment at home then you can get ... listen to. Napster and MP3's can help out in that aspect a lot. Before Napster came about local bands that don't have thousands of dollars to produce a CD to sell in stores, would just go as far playing in a local night club for years until (if and when) a recording studio would recognize them to inv...

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... table of content of the certain CDs. They have also used the technologies that focus on setting up deliberate errors on CD media. The traditional cd players can overlook those errors, but CD-ROMS would not cope with them. The idea of the systems like that to be perfectly playable by the standard consumer ... way you can eliminate the protection on CDs. I will require some work, but you will end up with the same result if it was just a regular CD. The technology is aimed to be convenient for the consumer, but since it is not a security mechanism, this is likely to backfire in the future ag...

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... something that all of us have most likely done at one time or another. The form of piracy I am referring about is lending your copy of a music CD or game to a friend, and making a copy of it for themselves. Since that copy is not intended as a backup, it is a violation of copyright ... to. Now, all one has to do is open up one of many file sharing programs, type in what they want, and within minutes, a CD-quality version of the song is downloaded to the user's computer. The pure convenience of this practice has caused people to start pirating music. No longer ... albums at a low price i...

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... there albums and not putting them on the list of songs on the album or making the album an interactive album with the help of SONY=s CD EXTRA. These are just a few ways that artist protecting them selves against the internet. Along with networking problems comes encryption and protecting your digital and ... zeros and ones. Now that CDRW (compact disc re write) drives have been released anybody can copy any CD they wish. Also along the lines of copying CDs there is software that lets anybody convert CD audio into a low space format mat called MP3 (Mpeg 3 layer), and can use the same prog...

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... one might think that the music sales have dropped dramatically, however, that is not case. A recent study states that "file-sharing led to 5% fewer CD sales worldwide last year" ("Digital Music Hardly a Lucrative Sector" 2). Although the sales are down, bands like "N Sync "broke the one week record for ... CD sales, ringing up more than 2.5 million" copies sold of one of their albums (Band 2). One suggestion that is being made is that people are ... previewing what they hear on such MP3 programs and then "buy the higher-quality CD if they like what they hear" (Band 2). Is the music indu...

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... there albums and not putting them on the list of songs on the album or making the album an interactive album with the help of SONY=s CD EXTRA. These are just a few ways that artist protecting them selves against the internet. Along with networking problems comes encryption and protecting your digital and ... zeros and ones. Now that CDRW (compact disc re write) drives have been released anybody can copy any CD they wish. Also along the lines of copying CDs there is software that lets anybody convert CD audio into a low space format mat called MP3 (Mpeg 3 layer), and can use the same prog...

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... In these rooms, there are servers who have lists of thousands of audio and video files, software, and video games. These files include music CD's that have not even been released to stores yet and movies that have recently been opened in theaters. With over 40% of Web users ... the people downloading the music) have become a more serious issue, artists have begun to speak out against them. Bootleggers directly influence artists" profits off of CD's and their status through SoundScan. SoundScan compiles all record sales and, along with the RIAA, determines if an album is considered, gold ...

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... use to burn illegal music. Napster use to be one of the top CD burning web site until they were shut down. Some people don't understand that burning CD's makes the music stars lose lots of money. I asked a teen why did he think CD burning was an important topic, he said "it's making the rap stars ... right. After I talked to him he told me he found his information off of commercials and the web. I asked a student and she replied "you have to buy the CD's yourself". This young lady told me she found this information shopping at stores. Me, I think as a matter of a fact I know that it ef...

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... face a new foe like no other. With the combination of software such as Napster and the MP3 technology, users can now download songs with near CD quality at no cost. With all this new computer technology(Internet, MP3, Napster), moral issues have been subject to debate like never before. Is downloading ... free music stealing from the music industry? From the way I see it, the music industry has brought this upon themselves due to overpriced CD's. A CD costs on average 12 dollars. The CD's usually have one or two good songs that are worth listening to. For over twenty years, the industry h...

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5 years ago, the music industry was experiencing exponential growth. Millions of listeners were paying up to 20 dollars to get a cd with maybe 12 songs. Today, the music industry is headed towards its doom, cd sales are as low as they have been in years. Why? How many songs do you have in your library. The response of many people would be staggering ... media. So, In five years, in ten years, where will file sharing be? Undoubtedly the recording industry will have to compromise with users and customers alike. CD's before Napster costed in excess of 20$ a cd. With free competition, artists wil...

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... listen it to any time I want? Do I just go download Napster for free and steal it and then listen to it at any time I want; perhaps even burn a few MP3 CD's so I have an entire musical collection of stolen goods of which I robbed several artists of? By choosing the right decision, the consumer is not only satisfied with the music he ... , and ultimately our economy. The consumer supports the artists, the recording labels, the studios which record the music, the companies which print and package the CD's, the retail shops that sell the CD's and the manufacturers of CD players. Through the...

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... reaction among programmers, who lose their job in market place (Elkin-Koren). Copyrights and patents are designed to protect software, but in the case of technology, it's actually hindering it. A CD contains a lot of information, and is the perfect media for storage. In more advanced storage media is the Digital Video Disc, or DVD, which is much more versatile, and contains ... 26 times the storage capacity of a CD, and 11500 times more (about 17 gigabytes) than a standard floppy disk. Moreover, a CD and a DVD have one more advantage over all the portable storage media it can contain th...

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... from the Field Research Corporation, a San Francisco-based research firm, 22 percent of Napster users said that because of Napster, they did not buy CD's any more or they bought fewer CD's." This ultimately means that since CD sales are declining, music artists and industries are losing profits. RIAA also reported that its own survey of music buyers showed "...over 50 percent of ... that have downloaded music for free have made copies of it. Just two years ago, only 13 percent copied it onto a portable device or a CD burner." They also report that in 2001 40% of all "music consumers" ow...

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... constitute a blatant infringement of copyright laws. The services that Mp3.com provided were technologies that allowed consumers to listen to their music anywhere, anytime. When an MP3.com customer buys a CD online through an MP3.com partner, the CD's songs can be transferred immediately into the customer's on-site account. Similarly, the Beam-it service allows a consumer to put an already-owned ... CD into a computer's disk drive, have the CD recognized and its songs transferred into their account.12 This site allows users to listen to the music on there account anywhere in the world, ...

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Would you rather pay at least fifteen dollars or nothing for a cd? The obvious answer is free. There are many websites on the Internet where you can download free music, pictures, movies and much more from someone else's ... " (Smith). Musicians, who have already walked down the red carpet in Hollywood, are scared of what this might do to their income. Accomplished musicians have always made a new cd and sold it for a profit, the almighty dollar bill. What the artists don't realize is that technological advancements are going to happen. The world is becoming completely digital. ... sales" (S...

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... . For the most part it shows the lack of vision and understanding the RIAA and some musicians have concerning the future of music. Why are CD sales down? In 2002, there was a 10% decline in record sales. The RIAA blame file-sharing, however, they need to consider the following ... , they scream copyright infringement and call their lawyers." (Boyle's) The second possibility is price. Music is overly expensive. Sometimes, paying $15 for a CD is just not within people's budget. What file-sharing has told the recording industry is that a very large number of people are more willing to ... ...

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... is big time record companies that have been ripping off music consumers for half a century. No more are we forced to buy a $17 cd because we only like one song, ending up with a pocket full of lint, and a cd full of shit. The Technology savvy, computer literate, youth of the world have struck back at the monopoly that is the recording industry ... know that even though my local record store does not carry a particular band or song I"m searching for, I can always find it on a p2p network. Just two weeks ago I found out a cd from one of my favorite bands was out of print. In the old days ...

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... adapting from one "original" idea. The majority of copying and fraud involves software and clothing items. One aspect of this is known as bootlegging. This is where someone copies a program, CD, performance, etc., and sells it on the streets. According to Mike Edward's of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry claims that world wide ... CD piracy accounts for 6.5% of the industries annual sales. A different approach to borrowing one's idea doesn't necessarily copy the product. Instead it involves misleading the consumer. As in one case, the ... the Florida Departmen...

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... its application in some specific cases appears to have alienated large segments of the research community" (EFF). It is not just e-book translator programs that are under the microscope either. CD rippers and DVD decoders provide a way around digital guards protecting software. Such programs allow files to be transferred to and manipulated by a computer. In the past, these actions would have ... been suing smaller companies and organizations and even single persons. Consider the following example of the music industry: Companies like Sony and Memorex have already circulated millions of ...

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... responsibilities, the distribution division takes control and begins to put this intellectual, funded, copyrighted, recorded, printed, promoted music into the hands of consumers. The distribution and sales division distributes the CD's, tapes, sheet music, T-shirts, and other merchandise to wholesalers and retailers of the products. These vendors buy in large quantities at wholesale prices. Another distributor of sheet music known as ... full-line publishing firms industry. Some companies may specialize in a certain areas, but all are necessary to make money in the end. When we see a pi...

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... record store clerks and, also, people who enjoy providing music to the public. Unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music is illegal, and is just as illegal as shoplifting a CD. If you burn CD's from peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, or Morpheus, or another free music downloading site, you are breaking the law. If you are distributing the music, you ... ...

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... development of economies, as well as in social and cultural life. One way of stopping piracy is the use of unique forensics laboratories that trace the manufacturing source of pirated CD's through microscopic examination and measurement. This science has helped link infringing discs to source factories and resulted in many raids on suspect plants worldwide. Another method of stopping piracy is ... who download music from places such as Kazaa and Napster. Piracy is a critical issue in our culture right now. Everyone can help put an end to piracy by buying authentic CD's from stores (not ...

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... widely-popular; used by millions worldwide. However, the files shared on this network are not always "free". Most music files (or MP3's) and movies are "ripped" from the source, usually a CD or DVD, and distributed out onto the net via Kazaa. I personally use Kazaa and have seen whole album compilations and movies not even released to the public yet. The Recording ... ) As an aspiring musician, I have acknowledged the monetary aspect of the Recording Industry and how file-sharing hurts the music economy. Taking into account how much it costs to produce a CD, millions of dollars have been...

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... the world. The acronym MP3 stands for Moving Picture Exports Group 1, Audio Layer 3. This format is a type of compression made especially for digital audio. It works very effectively to compress CD-quality music into a file about one twelfth of the size, while retaining close to the original quality. This gives the listener an appealing new method to listen to music. Many ... , sometimes it can be hard to tell whether the music on offer is legal, and has been submitted by the artists themselves, or whether music has been copied from a copyrighted CD and published. The easiest way to tell...

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... owner. This is called a license. Once a piece of music is created then documented or recorded it is automatically copyrighted by the songwriter (not performers), for example on video, tape or CD or simply writing down the notation of a score. PRS for Music Limited is a UK copyright collection society and performance rights organization undertaking collective rights management for musical works A music publishing ... ...

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