The revolution of illegal music sharing started in May 1999, when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched software called Napster, a file sharing application through the Internet. In less than a year, Napster allowed more than 20 million people to share music in mp3 format, making it the most popular file sharing software on the Internet at that time. This huge community caused a major issue for the music industry.
Since 1999, many sharing programs, which are copycats of Napster, have come and gone. Such as Limewire, Kazaa, BitTorrent and many more. These programs were easy to access and use by millions of people around the world, which made it very challenging for the industry to control this illegal activity. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) noticed that this issue has gone out of hands, causing a lot of wounds to the music industry, and that they had to …show more content…
Listeners from all over the world can search, download, and listen to any kind of music. You can easily access any genre of music, whether it was rock, pop, classic, etc. Or even if it was in another language, such as English, Arabic, Spanish, etc. Hence, there are no limits to Internet music sharing. It is available for anyone, anytime, any age, and anywhere around the world. In addition, it made it easier for people to listen to a single song, instead of buying the whole album on a CD or any type of other media.
To conclude, it is clear that music piracy has many disadvantages that outweigh its few advantages, which affected the music industry carelessly. Moreover, it is completely egocentric to think of free music as an advantage, when comparing it to thousands of people losing their jobs. In addition, music piracy will make it more difficult to discover those ambitious artists out there; hence, we will not have the chance to listen to all the great music that is yet to be
Since 1999, many sharing programs, which are copycats of Napster, have come and gone. Such as Limewire, Kazaa, BitTorrent and many more. These programs were easy to access and use by millions of people around the world, which made it very challenging for the industry to control this illegal activity. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) noticed that this issue has gone out of hands, causing a lot of wounds to the music industry, and that they had to …show more content…
Listeners from all over the world can search, download, and listen to any kind of music. You can easily access any genre of music, whether it was rock, pop, classic, etc. Or even if it was in another language, such as English, Arabic, Spanish, etc. Hence, there are no limits to Internet music sharing. It is available for anyone, anytime, any age, and anywhere around the world. In addition, it made it easier for people to listen to a single song, instead of buying the whole album on a CD or any type of other media.
To conclude, it is clear that music piracy has many disadvantages that outweigh its few advantages, which affected the music industry carelessly. Moreover, it is completely egocentric to think of free music as an advantage, when comparing it to thousands of people losing their jobs. In addition, music piracy will make it more difficult to discover those ambitious artists out there; hence, we will not have the chance to listen to all the great music that is yet to be