Now I,m going to try to start answering my initial question, as long as my "helping questions". P2p is known as peer-to-peer networking, which is a way of sharing files. This is used to share illegally downloaded files between people. One of my questions is "Are bands tryint to stop illegal downloading?" And yes the music industry is trying to abolish this. Between 2000 and 2006, this has been responsible for 23% worldwide decline in sales of music CDs.Apple's iTunes service, which has sold just over 2 billion songs since it launched back in 2003, which also represents over 70% of the legal music download business. Big Champagne estimates that over 1 billion tracks are exchanged monthly. This is ridiculus because that is alot of music and by the way none of that is getting paid for so that is not helping the ,usic industry at all is it? And say one person does pay for all of the songs. Okay that person is on the right track. they did help the music industry. Okay now lets say said person has friends that likes the same type of songs that the purchaser has bought. This that person wants to be a nice friend had send him the songs for free over the internet. Now that person has just recieved said music for free. That is the same as downloading for free the way i look at it because that person just got it for free and the music industry is not going to make any prfofit off of it. Thats one thing. Now lets say that person decides to send it to some of his friends and those friends send it to their friends and the line of sending goes on and on and on etc. That was just alot of free music going down the line. Even though that one person did pay for the music, all those other people just got it free of charge. All that right there could have been thousands of dollars in profit if all those people paid for the songs. Now that just started with one person. Now multiply that by how many people int he world do that without even having a starting person that paid. Most people do that without even paying."Russ Crupnick, an analyst at consumer research group NPD, noted a 7% rise in the number of U.S. households engaged in filesharing, and a 24% increase in illegal downloads over the past year"(James).
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james, Delahunty . "Ilegal Music Downloading Still on Rise." afterdawn.com (2007):
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