Summary on the war on piracy

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There are three related important points to establish about music piracy. Firstly it is illegal and also morally wrong to obtain copies of music or film or other entertainment without some form of payment. Secondly the process has been stimulated by the perception that record companies neither have the interests of the artists at heart, and they have in the past made huge profits by overpricing music.

Thirdly music companies have been slow to realize that digital music requires a rights regime that allows various personal copies of music to be moved between different personal types of players.

Quite simply, young people would rather break a law than pay the current prices, and certainly break the law to copy tracks they have already bought for one player, which won’t play on another.

It is only one third of this equation that may have been addressed so far, that of stopping piracy, and Faultline would argue that this has not been finally or successfully addressed, despite claims to the contrary, made throughout this week.

the rest is here, if your interested, read the rest of the article:the register