Music swapping is the act of copying or stealing music, it's an act of plagiarism. People that Music swap hurt the music industry because, it's easy to get to with the internet, it's an act of plagiarism, and hurts the smaller bands make money off their music and get their name out. This is a selfish act that's easy to do and not a lot of people know about this information. That's what this brochure is all about to help educate and let people know what harm music swapping is doing to the music industry.
Music Swapping, the illegal act of copying music, or known as pirating to most people. If caught doing this the punishment is like a thief, time in jail. Music swapping is the act of taking someone's music they have made and copying it to make money off the band's or singer's work. This has grown to a serious problem, according to CBS News, “they have found that music thieves pirated more than forty two billion dollars from the music industry.” This shows that this is a popular act to rip off artists and bands. With that being the case, music swapping has grown a huge problem of theft. That's is why, there is now a 40 billion dollar music industry is trying to stop this act. As you can see, …show more content…
The lesser known bands or artist don't do this for free and they don't want to just give you their hard work for nothing. Most of the less known bands have to break up or give up on their dreams because they don't make enough money to keep going. According to Next Big Sound’s 2013: The Year In Rewind. Only nine percent of artists make it big. The other ninety nine percent goes undiscovered from the public. They need to make money off their music to get their name out there. Pirates are stealing their hard work and leave them in the ninety nine percent. If you want your band to keep going and write more songs, then buy their CD’s and support them don't steal from
Music Swapping, the illegal act of copying music, or known as pirating to most people. If caught doing this the punishment is like a thief, time in jail. Music swapping is the act of taking someone's music they have made and copying it to make money off the band's or singer's work. This has grown to a serious problem, according to CBS News, “they have found that music thieves pirated more than forty two billion dollars from the music industry.” This shows that this is a popular act to rip off artists and bands. With that being the case, music swapping has grown a huge problem of theft. That's is why, there is now a 40 billion dollar music industry is trying to stop this act. As you can see, …show more content…
The lesser known bands or artist don't do this for free and they don't want to just give you their hard work for nothing. Most of the less known bands have to break up or give up on their dreams because they don't make enough money to keep going. According to Next Big Sound’s 2013: The Year In Rewind. Only nine percent of artists make it big. The other ninety nine percent goes undiscovered from the public. They need to make money off their music to get their name out there. Pirates are stealing their hard work and leave them in the ninety nine percent. If you want your band to keep going and write more songs, then buy their CD’s and support them don't steal from