I have read many articles on music piracy over the months and have read many articles in the "billboard" magazine that comes out weekly. over the months I have seen the closing of many brick and mortals stores due to piracy but also due to the price of music.we can argue that the cost of a music cd lead to piracy or piracy lead to the price of music cds going up.either way whatever the reason, it happens and it needs to stop. before the age of Internet it still was going on.I grew up with the age of 8-tracks,cassettes and lps.and now we have cds,ipods and other sources. people would record their music onto cassettes and sell them and it was easy to do.now people burn them onto cds and sell them and yes the writers,producers and singers lose out.for they had no way to get money from those sales for they were done illegally.now you can go to places like lime-wire,grokster and other sources and get free music.once again the artist loses out- now alot of people like myself like to go to the store and feel and see the product we buy-buying over the Internet and paying first for the item seems like a nice way and convenient way to go without leaving the house.yes i have bought things online, but i still prefer to pay for things in hand.picking up the item and walking to the cashier and paying for it. now that music cds has gone now quite a bit at the stores.its nice to go on tuesday to see new releases going for $7.99 to $9.99 a piece. alot better than $15.99-$19.99 a piece.the price came a little to late for alot of music stores for they have closed.I live in a area where we have no major chain music store at all.
we depend on bestbuy,target,wal-mart and kmart for our music and barnes and nobles book store. because of the economy and people not buying cds at stores we have seen wal-mart and k-mart cut their music section down a whole lot. I don't blame the stores for if a product don't sale it is just taking up space and they are losing money or I should say they are not making money for that product. barnes and nobles always has a great selection of all genres of music as well as bestbuy. target is new here so I don't know if that is all they have ever carried or if they have also been hit by people not buying the music. as more and more people find more ways to obtain free music via the internet or someone burning them a free cd.in the long run the artist are suffering as well as the music industry.then in turn we the ones who does buy our music whether it be from itunes or Napster,amazon.com or from other legal sources like our local store. I know a new artist must have a hard time making it when people don't obtain their music from legal sources and people continue to pirate a cd or a single.
I feel if i buy my music so should everyone else-but if everyone had that same thinking the music industry would not be hurting.I don't condone piracy but i also understand why people started doing it. cds were going for almost 20 dollars a pop and that mean you might be able to buy 1 or 2 a month or maybe none at all.as the economy goes more and more downhill the more we all will feel the pinch. as things go up in prices like insurances and food-we will see the music industry suffer more and more. I wonder with the internet constantly growing and getting better and better that there is not a system to control the way music is being downloaded illegally. that doesn't mean someone who happens to download one or 2 songs illegally are fined huge but the place that they got the song they got illegally should be the one who is fined. if there was not a site you can go to to get free songs then that would cut down the illegal downloading. I realize if you shut down one site there is another one ready to take its place. but there needs to be a better system than what is in place and that will work.
if you interested in the articles i have read you can go to this site listed below.
http://www.billboard.com
