Internet Music

Music Piracy

Stealing music and why it is wrong

Introduction

One night in a typical home in any city in the U.S.A., individuals are downloading illegal music (downloading music illegally; it is the act that is illegal and not really the music) ). With no care in the world, and thinking that they won't get caught. (This second sentence is incomplete)Then all of a sudden, the individuals are getting fined over thousands of dollars for the illegal music that they had downloaded. (for the music they had downloaded illegally). In this essay, it will be explained that music piracy should not be tolerated; different types of piracy the effects it can do on the music industry, and the different types of piracy (This last sentence needs rewriting for clarity; the sentence might not even be necessary)

The reason why (Delete " the reason why" and begin your sentence with Music......because; the reason why and because sound repetitive) music piracy should not be tolerated is (delete is) because people in this world do not realize the huge negative impact that it has on the music industry. I know that everyone thinks, "Well they are rich and I'm only taking one song" or "I don't want to buy the whole CD for only a few songs". Pirated products are poorly manufactured and don't have the sound quality and [delete "and" here" ]etc. that come along with the original work. According to Riaa.com, "Each year, the industry loses about $4.2 billion to piracy worldwide -- "we estimate we lose millions of dollars a day to all forms of piracy."

When you pirate a movie for an example, you are taking money away from the production company as well as the actors/actress's (the word, actresses, is the plural; same word with an apostrophe s indicates possessive which is not what you really mean here). When that happens, they don't have enough money to cover the costs of the production of the movie. This in return causes that production company to produce fewer movies, or make movies at a lower quality. This takes from our entertainment. In Korea and Japan, they have thousands of vendors on the street selling movies that just came out in the states to the movie theaters.

There are four specific categories of music piracy. They are pirate recordings, counterfeit recordings, bootleg recording, and online piracy. Pirate recordings are the unauthorized duplication of only the sound of legitimate recordings, as opposed to all the packaging, i.e. the original art, label, title, sequencing, combination of titles etc. This includes mixed tapes and compilation CDs featuring one or more artists. Counterfeit recordings are unauthorized recordings of the prerecorded sound as well as the unauthorized duplication of original artwork, label, trademark and packaging. Bootleg recordings (or underground recordings) are the unauthorized recordings of live concerts, or musical broadcasts on radio or television. Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy may now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologies from the Internet.

Online piracy has to be the most common type of piracy. It's so easy to access and there are so many programs out there to help you. Some prime examples of peer-to-peer network software are, Kazaa,