Music Piracy is any form of illegal copying of music. Which includes downloading, file sharing,and CD-burning. Music piracy is totally stealing music from a perfectly legal site. You could get up to 5 years of prison or you can get fined $250,000. Downloading music illegally isn't worth the time in prison and it's not worth any of the money.
A recent study disclosing the economic damages upon the US economy by music piracy found that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion in economic losses every year and approximately 71,060 U.S. lost jobs. Its having a real and harmful effect on countless musicians, songwriters, and performers, virtually everyone from recording engineers to record-store clerks who dream of making a living by providing music to the public.The theft of music has comprised the industry’s ability to invest in the new bands of tomorrow. Downloading music isn't as simple as it seems because of the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the Internet. To make matters even messier, some music can be lawfully downloaded, and for those that aren't, laws regarding the sharing and downloading of music on the internet vary from country to country.
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has failed to halt the decline of the record album or the increase of digital music sharing.
Still, hardly a month goes by without a news release from the industry's lobby, the Recording Industry Association of America, boosting in a new wave of letters to college students and others demanding a settlement payment and threatening a legal battle. If you make illegal copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing. You're breaking the law and you could be held legally liable for thousands of bucks in damages.
A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that illegal music downloaders may not be as bad to record companies’ as thought. The research examined the buying habits of 2,000 online music users, and found that those who downloaded tracks for free (both legally and illegally), were 10 times more likely to pay for their music. The subjects often said that the freely gotten music was used to inform their following purchases.
A recent study disclosing the economic damages upon the US economy by music piracy found that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion in economic losses every year and approximately 71,060 U.S. lost jobs. Its having a real and harmful effect on countless musicians, songwriters, and performers, virtually everyone from recording engineers to record-store clerks who dream of making a living by providing music to the public.The theft of music has comprised the industry’s ability to invest in the new bands of tomorrow.
Downloading music isn't as simple as it seems because of the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the Internet. To make matters even messier, some music can be lawfully downloaded, and for those that aren't, laws regarding the sharing and downloading of music on the internet vary from country to country.
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has failed to halt the decline of the record album or the increase of digital music sharing.
Still, hardly a month goes by without a news release from the industry's lobby, the Recording Industry Association of America, boosting in a new wave of letters to college students and others demanding a settlement payment and threatening a legal battle. If you make illegal copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing. You're breaking the law and you could be held legally liable for thousands of bucks in damages.
A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that illegal music downloaders may not be as bad to record companies’ as thought. The research examined the buying habits of 2,000 online music users, and found that those who downloaded tracks for free (both legally and illegally), were 10 times more likely to pay for their music. The subjects often said that the freely gotten music was used to inform their following purchases.