"Estimates of how much music CD sales have suffered from Internet piracy in the last three years vary from about 14% to the figure most of the panelists used -- 30%. National estimates say some 60 million Americans regularly "pirate" copyrighted music online, a practice that's costing the industry at least $700 million in lost CD sales annually." This has to be hard for bands to deal with because this is alotof profit lost basically in cyber space. Other studies show that most people studing this subject states that it is litterally impossible to stop illegal downloaders from downloading because in all reality there really is no way to prevent it. Without a warrent a police official could not even go in your house and if they did say they were going to go in your house all youwould have to do is turn your computer off, its not that hard. The next question that i want to try to answer is how bands are dealing with this. And if they are trying to prevent this what are some ways or tecniques they are using to go about this.And if so is any of this working? Because they might not even be trying because they are still making money even though thier songs are getting acquired without any profit but if i was in the music industry i would still complain because if I am putting the work in then I want all the money that should rightfully be mine. According to AJJ an editorial writer, he thinks that money and music should be kept far away from eachother. He thinks that money should only be taken by artists that need it to better thier work. But if they already have good music they shouyld just let people listen to it free of charge. In my opinion thgis is a nice jesture but, it doesnt help the industry at all. It also is different for him to say that because he doesn't know how it feels to do things and not get paid because he is not a music artist but my next queston to answer is how bands feel about it.
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Konsynski, Benn. "Facing the Music: How Piracy is Transforming the Music Industry." knowledge.emory.edu (2003):
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A.J.J., A.J.J.. "Glasswerk Editorial - 15th October." Glasswerk Editorial.com (2007):
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Good job Mike, I like the topic I think it does matter in society today. But think about this who cares if these billionaires get one or two songs stolen, maybe they shouldn't have bought that gold plated sink.
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