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In 2014 Prince decided to take legal action against 22 of his fans who posted copies of his live performances online. In 2007, Prince launched a legal action against the Pirate Bay, a well-known website offering links to pirated material. The case was never followed through

Rdiohead's lead guitarist, Ed O'Brien, has publically said he doesn't think pirating is ruining the music industry...

"I don't actually believe it is... [Pirates] might not buy an album, but they're spending their money buying concert tickets, a T-shirt, whatever."

In 2007 Radiohead released their 7th album online for free. "

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What attempts have bveen made to combat piracy?

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What attempts have bveen made to combat piracy?

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The seconds idea is quite the opposite. It has been suggested that the pirating of music has actually helped the music industry. This suggestion came from the Institute for Technological Studies, it claims...

"digital music piracy does not displace legal music purchases in digital format",

"the majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in [the] sample would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites were not available". Therfore, it is not technically costing the music industry.

Furthermore, it could be beneficial because people who have downloaded songs illegally may interact with the artist's merchandise legally, e.g. t-shirts, concerts.

Illegal music consumption could also, in theory, stimulate legal music consumption. Since music is an experience good, ﬁle sharing can allow consumers to sample specific songs or albums which can inform them on what to buy. Similarly, the sampling of a speciﬁc song may stimulate individual demand for other songs by the same artist."

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/21/music-piracy-doesnt-hurt-sales

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The first is that it is having a definite negative impact on the industry. When people illegally downlaod music they are not payi ng and hence are stealing. This therefore, takes away money from the creators of the music.

The availability of free music has cost the music industry $12.5 billion in economic losses.

This results in less money in the music industry and could result in less music being made, becasue they don't have the money to make as much as they would like. Furthermore, to combat the decrease in profits the music industry has reorted to laying-off employees, e.g. songwriters, producers and marketing support.

The RIAA reveals that more than 71,000 jobs have been lost as a result of illegally downloading music.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/illegally-downloading-music-impact-music-industry-27748.html

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There are two main arguments, about the impact of piracy...

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What impact has piracy had on the msuic industry?

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What impact has piracy had on the msuic industry?

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- The most illegally downloaded album of all time is Drake's 2013 'Nothing was the same'

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- One of the most prominent ways people now pirate music is through online YouTube converters.
- These work by simply pasting the url of a YouTube video into the website and then choosing which format, e.g. MP3 or MP4, which can then be downloaded onto your computer.

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What is a peer to peer file sharing network?

P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content. The nodes (peers) of such networks are end-user computer systems that are interconnected via the Internet.

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- Launched in 2000 by Mark Gorton, former Wall Street trader and graduate from Harvard, Yale and Stanford.
- Free peer-to-peer file sharing program, which used the gnutella network (a free download) to allow users to download content. E.g. images, music and documents.
- They claimed 50 million used the website per month
- In 2010 a federal court in New York issued a "permenant injuction" against Limewire. The court also ruled that LimeWire should "use all reasonable technological means to immediately cease and desist
- This came following a four year legal battle with the RIAA
- As a result Limewire was shot down

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- First major file sharing program was Napster established in 1999
- It pioneered the free 'sharing' of music tracks around the world. The idea was that someone who owned a digital format of a certain track they could put it on the website for others to access.
-  At its peak, Napster had over 25 million users and 80 million songs
- But Napster soon ran into trouble with various high profile music artists filing law suits against the company for not removing their copyrighted songs. E.g. Metallica.
-  In July 2001 Napster shut down its entire network to comnply with an injuction it was served, following a law suit by The Recording Industry Association of America.
- Spetmber 2001, they agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners $26 million. It later declares bankruptcy
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