Everyone has done it before. Some feel kind of bad about it while others see it
as a better way for them to get back at the man. Where ever you stand your
reasons are your own, however the continued piracy of copy righted material has
the music industry a little more than aggravated. So mad in fact that the big
four Universal, Time-Warner, EMI, and Sony have launched a campaign of lawsuits
against free music distributors like KaZa, Bear Share, Napster and other similar
free file sharing services. They see it as a threat to their continued profit
and that of the artist’s. When in truth most artists only get a minimal percent
of the record sales. Most if not all of an artist’s income is received from
concert ticket sales. In order to combat the growing number pirating enterprises
the Big Four along with many other record companies have asked for congress to
pass legislation making the download of pirated music the same as stealing the
CD right from store.
Will this bill pass? Who can tell? Either way
its not costing the United States government any
of its yearly income so I would be completely
surprised if Congress passed this legislation.
Politicians would only focus on this piece of
legislation if there was a chance for glory from
it or a chance to increase their popularity with
those they are representing. This is due to the
fact that its only small proportion of the
United States population that even cares whether
or not music is pirated, but what they do care
about is that they can listen to it. |
