Like the eternal chase of the mouse and the cat, from the invention of recordable media there has been an infinite fight between musicians and/or producers with “pirates”. Everyday new developments in information technologies allows us to keep more and more information and even smaller and cheaper media. This advances plus other aspects makes it easier to get our hands into illegally obtained music.
The internet has become the villain and the hero in different cases. Justin Bieber and the new Golden Voice man have taken the opportunities, even if they didn’t directly look for them, of low cost high reach internet media. In matter of days, their videos became viral and consequently they became famous.
Unfortunately for the more traditional music companies, this freedom of communications limits their most valuable asset: Control. Not only controlling the artists but also their creation impulses, and even the music we hear in our favorite radios stations. Believe me, I’ve hated a song, and after hearing it about 100 times I begin to sing it! That type control is traduced in $$$ millions!!! Even though music industry is a huge business last periods have been of constant decline.
Let’s be honest about it, most of us have at LEAST hear some music from unknown sources, but at it is core it just stealing, so if we hope to live in a civilized society, we should encourage laws and regulations preventing this kind of behavior. The music industry has given lots of people a way of life and has a positive impact on economies around the world. So in short we should protect it.
As always I am not in favor of newer regulations by bigger governments, but in this case we are dealing with a special market. It is not rational to conclude that music piracy would be completely eliminated in the future, due to the nature of electronic media people CONSTANTLY will continue to beat the “system”. One example of newer mechanisms to try to prevent piracy is the development of sites in the internet that allows the consumer just to pay for a particular song, instead of buying an album which you would finally appreciate two or three songs. Eventually we can conclude that this is just an eternal chase, between the listener and producers, labels and artists; and this chase would continue to develop newer and best music media and ways to try to stop electronic piracy.
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ReplyDeleteAnd so it goes on...The circle of producers, sellers, easy riders and "free" chasers from the Bible days into the digital world. Hardworking or not that hardworking artists want to get paid every potential cent to be maid by a catchy tune no matter if it plays in Alaska or India. The eternal chase of "music industry" cat after our dollars -"Mice" and difficulties in its cupture caused millions arguments, court cases, regulations issuances and reissuances.But it seems that the global fight against Internet crime is set to go to a whole new level and Russia is no different. Just yesterday all the news were flooded with closing of the most notorious pirate website Torrents.ru, and the headlines had no chance to cool off as a new scandal surrounding the largest domestic filesharing website iFolder.Ru spilled over into the news but this time law enforcement agencies have announced intentions to fight not only the owners of the torrent tracker and file-sharing networks, but also the users who steal intellectual property or let me paraphrase that -download "free" music.
ReplyDeleteHead of Economic Crimes Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow Nikolay Nazimok noted that users themselves have become distributors of pirated products among other users. According to Nazimok, the problem of regulation of illegal activity file-sharing networks is high. The danger of such a scheme is the spread of pirated content through networks that represent nothing else but larger network of networks.
One can assume that the closure of Torrents.ru can start of a series of high-profile trials and litigations. The police is committed to maintain a network of active struggle against resources like Torrents.ru and illegal distribution of pirated content in RuNet.
The United States are fighting the piracy back vigorously. Recently, the administration of one of the world's largest file-hosting sites RapidShare announced intentions to close the accounts of users engaged in the illegal distribution and downloading of illegal content (music, movies, TV programs, software, games).