by: Plaily Muzic
Internet has come to change everything that once
relations used to be lied on. Since Internet had invaded
homes, the daily life has never been the same again.
Internet changed the family’s habits, the culture and
the way someone sees the world. Music is just a part of
this change.
Regarding to music, this issue is even more complicated.
People now can prepare their own CDs by downloading
music from the Internet. And this has become another
problematic thing that has contributed to increase the
piracy.
The music download problem lies on two issues:
- If people can have access to the most varied types of
music, they can have a better idea of a particular
artist’s material, they can find out singers they had
never heard of and get their CDs even this. These
actions may be a little bit illegal and sometimes reduce
the profits of the big music companies, but, however, it
increases the range where a singer is known. When this
happens, both singer and his/her music records win a
special recognition, which may lead to the hire of them
for shows and (guess what?) profits.
- But if it is true that music download can be
beneficial for an artist, sometimes it can also be
harmful, speaking about profits of course. And this loss
of money in general happens to already famous artists.
People download their songs from the Internet because
they already know that singer and because they like
him/her.
The big music industry complex has a tough battle to
face. Profits or recognition!? Profits and recognition
depends on each other: you only have profits when you
achieve recognition, but your recognition can be
measured by your profits. How to solve the problem?
Well, even if this matter seems to be far from a
solution, some measures are being taken by the
companies. Some laws have been created and other demands
are being done. Even if it is hard to supervise all the
websites on the Internet that offer music download, some
people have been being charged of piracy and arrested.
Janis Ian on her article states that the music download
increases the profit of the music industries, instead of
what these industries allege. According to Janis, when
people downloads a music form he Internet and get to
know that song, they buy the CD because they already
liked it and have no way to regret buying that CD. She
also states that this happens because most of people
cannot pay for a CD just to “give it a try”.
Music download is a reality – no matter what.
