The Effect Of Internet Piracy On The Music Industry

Internet piracy is a controversial issue when it comes to whether or not it affects the entertainment industries since the start of twenty-first century. The scholarly article, written by Koster, called “Fighting Internet Piracy: The French Experience With The Hadopi Law”, is about internet piracy cause a decrease the revenue in music industry and the French decided to create a law in order to help music industry’s revenue from decline any further. The law is called Hadopi and its objectives are: “1) to enforce the copyright law on the Internet through legal actions against violators, 2) to educate Internet users about illegal versus legal activities with respect to the copyright law, and 3) to facilitate the development of Internet services providing legal access to copyrighted works” (Alexis 327). This scholarly article is on the side that said internet piracy hurt economics and argue that there need to be a law to help protect the entertainment industries. On the other hand, an article called “Piracy Isn’t Killing The Entertainment Industry, Scholars Show” by Ernesto is about how internet piracy helping industries to increase in revenue rather than decrease. This article is based on a study make by The London School of Economics and Political Science that look into the issue on how internet piracy help increase revenue of the entertainment industries. …show more content…
Between the two articles, they both agree on the fact that music sale is increasing despite the effect of internet piracy on the industry, disagree on the matter that internet piracy decrease the revenue in entertainment industries