Welcome to Karl’s Podcast and today we will talk about illegally downloading songs.
Ever since the internet was created downloading songs illegally have become a giant problem with artists. Music artists now are concerned that their music isn’t being paid for when they release an album. Digital sales are high right now, but unauthorized music file sharing is still going strong. Americans have downloaded 660 million songs using the software Bittorrent, is a software that does not authorize and pays for the music sale. What kind of songs are usually downloaded illegally well John Klupefel explains. “The songs that people usually download are the top 50 hits off of iTunes. The songs usually cost around a dollar or two and that is where people tend to illegally download the songs. First, they cost money to buy a single song that will die off after a couple weeks. Secondly, the songs are the most popular out there and people urgently want them.” These songs can be easily downloaded and that’s why so many people do it. The police do nothing to enforce the law on the millions of people who download illegally. Is torrenting the only way to download illegal songs. There are many other ways to illegally download, for example, people can find the music video on Youtube. Then only download the audio from the video. Many other sites provide the top 50 songs for free downloads because the internet is filled illegal music websites. There has been evidence that once Limewire was shut down, the digital sales for music went up and stayed up. So once one of these sites gets shut down it does help digital sales. The law has been slowly but surely working its way to help digital sales overcome illegal downloads.
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