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Today there has been a large amount of controversy surrounding MP3 and the sharing of these files. Recently a federal court judge in the US issued an injunction ordering Napster, the more popular MP3 sharing community on the net to block all its copyright music, also MP3.com settled its dispute with Universal Music Group for access to its copyright songs agreeing to pay $53.4 million dollars. The reason why these popular sites are been prosecuted simply because they violated the Copyright law sharing copyright MP3 files. But Napster claims it was offering a sample of the artist for users to help them decide purchasing the full album.
But today the ever-changing world of technology seems to make it easy for Internet users to make and freely distribute illegal copied music throughout the world. Controlling Internet copyright is a difficult issue to cover. This is because of the way the network economy works, and how computers operate to show you content of websites. Undoubtedly, the biggest concern over freely downloadable MP3 files is the lose of profits to the artist and recording company. The record labels are fearful they will loose their hold in the marketplace. The artist and record companies are protesting against unauthorized reproduction, and distributions of their music. To legally distribute or reproduce music you must obtain a performance right license and pay a fee. In October 1998 “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act” (DMCA) was signed to protect the music industry from the distribution of illegal copies on music (MP3). The DMCA was bought in to address key issues for the music industry such as anti-piracy penalties, the scope of copyright infringement, and changes in digital audio transmission rules for webcasting. For more details visit http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html. As mentioned before it is hard to control copyright infringements on the Internet. Napster is not the only site that offers free MP3s, there are dozen of other sites where you can download for free. As Napster battles for survival in the courts many (Napster) clone sites are been planned for users to continue downloading free MP3 files. For example a Canadian entrepreneur hopes to circumvent U.S. litigation that threatens to kill the Napster song-sharing system by setting up a version of the service offshore widthout restrictions. source http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/Internet/03... The Internet is too much of a vast area to control copyright unless each individual web site owners comply with the copyright law. So before you post or download an MP3 file for free you better think twice, it’s NOT ALL RIGHT. Go To Page: 1 2
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