pritated music
For long the battle between music company and illegal downloaders has been going on without an end in sight. There are millions of sites from which you can download music illegally, and similarly there several site where you can buy music. I understand why this is turning out to a very important battle with most of the songs being sold online. CD sales in the UK have dropped over the last few years and several stores have also stopped selling them since they do not make enough profit. HMV, one of the largest music retailers in the country also had to shut down many of their shops due to the same reason. But it's not that everyone is buying this music online, they are mostly downloading it. that's why the music companies are mad. Napster was shut down, but there are many other places where you can download music illegally. The fight to stop all these sites is not going to be easy and the system is going to have a difficult time trying to stop file sharing.
I have to admit that though I regularly buy music off itunes, not all my songs are legal. But then you can't hold that against me considering that I am just a poor student trying to get by.
There is a site called We7 that I came across. This idea makes sense to me where you download the songs with a little advertisement, of about 10 seconds, at the beginning of each track. So you don't have to pay for it, but the advertisers do.
Is the main reason I am excited about this model the fact that you can program itunes to skip the first 10 seconds of all songs? It works for me.
3 comments:
Sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure who will advertise with them considering that one can already program out the ad. And in case blocking the ad out becomes illegal, then listening to your favourite songs will be as irritating as listening to the radio with people trying to sell you car insurance or fat free butter every 5 minutes. Sounds like piracy is here to stay.
that's what i thought too... but then i read this bit on their site which says that you can download the same songs after a couple of weeks for free without the ads.. so though its not the ideal place to advertise, hotmail wasn't either!
Why do i feel u wrote this post after i told u i dint know there was something like Illegal downloading.. everything illegal feels so natural no :D
Dimple ;)
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