Music Piracy and the New Musician
Today, click-and-download technology presents a greater threat to the music industry than any other previous music music-delivery technologies combined.
is music piracy comes in three different levels:
Illegal mass production of manufactured pirate music CDs
Illegal copies of legitimately purchased music CDs
Illegally downloaded digital copies of music recordings
A recent study on the economic impact of music piracy (Institute for Policy Innovation, August 2007) paints a gloomy picture. The effects of music piracy on the U.S. economy is in U.S. $ 12500000000 annually. It is estimated that 71 060 jobs will be lost or at risk because of the economic impact of piracy and the lost opportunities for growth account for 26 860 jobs that would otherwise have been created in the music industry. Even the U.S. government is due to piracy, with an estimated loss of 422 million U.S. dollars in lost tax revenues go from the affected individual and corporation tax by piracy.
Of course, these figures on the assumption that would be the sale of music recordings on CD are are held constant, or based on increased from year to year. The truth is that CD sales account for the decline as MP3 players and other digital technologies are the need for music on physical media obsolete.
In addition to declining CD sales, half-closed independent record America’s Stores zwischen 2003 and 2005. (NY Post). One of the largest international chains of recorded music retailers, Tower Records, shut its doors for good on 22 December 2006.
Want to see how widespread music piracy really is? Here is a real-time counter that shows the number of illegal music files downloaded over the world every second.
If the average person thinks of music piracy, he or she thinks usually Any unauthorized use of downloaded or recorded music between small groups of friends. And while doing these numbers, the music industry’s losses, the biggest losses incurred by the sale of pirated copies of music on CD-R disks to thousands of small commercial laboratories contribute burned down by professional music pirates.
The cost of music piracy are enormous not only for the high-profile superstars, but also for the new musician. It is important for every musician and band member to understand the nature of music piracy, and learn how to fight this problem. Know your rights and learn more about the technology that exists, you can protect your intellectual property and (music) against piracy.
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