Is there such a thing as buying music? That was my reaction when I was around twelve years old and I found out that downloading music from Ares was illegal. I didn’t even know that you had to buy music in the internet. I supposed that it was there for us to take. I refer to the music first because it was the one which came first. Downloading free music from the Internet has been a common issue since it started. At first, artists and record labels suffered a lot, but I think that now they have adapted and surrendered to it. Movie piracy on the other hand, is something relatively new. I don’t know if it is that I am already used to music piracy, but pirating movies seems a lot worst for me. When I googled this two terms, the first results were all related to them as being a crime, like trying to scare the person who looks for piracy since the beginning.
Music piracy began a long time ago, about 1999. The MP3 format was created to compress the songs and in that way be able to pass them along easier. Before music was pirated, artists made a lot of money from selling their records, and not only them, but all those involved in the business of making the records. Nowadays, artists make the most money from concerts and tours. That’s why movie piracy seems worse, because movies or actors don’t make concerts! They don’t have any other way of income. Movie piracy is being achieved with the help of this new format called MPEG. This file format is used for compressing and playing video. Movie piracy was more common outside the web (people selling it on streets), but now that the online power has grown, it is very common to find all movies on the internet too.It is obvious that most information that appears on the web is against pirating, but there is also some information saying it is good (music piracy good, movie piracy good).
I think that piracy is just something that has to happen and it can´t be avoided. As in everything in media, there are always going to be gate jumpers to the actual gate keepers, and we are going to have to deal with that. What we have to do is try to look at some positive side of this. For example, it is true that pirating takes a lot of money from the movie and music industry, but it is also true that that money is going to a different type of industry (as pirates have to buy equipment and pay for online services). I think that people from movie and music business have to be smart with all this. They should find ways of becoming their own pirates and make profit from that. For example, movie makers could create an own website where they can play movies for free and with the best quality, but they can take advantage of that by charging for advertisings. In that way a lot of people would go to that website and they would still make more money. As for music, they should try selling cds at a lower price. Maybe they will not get much per cd, but they will certainly sell a lot more and maybe gain more money.
Music piracy began a long time ago, about 1999. The MP3 format was created to compress the songs and in that way be able to pass them along easier. Before music was pirated, artists made a lot of money from selling their records, and not only them, but all those involved in the business of making the records. Nowadays, artists make the most money from concerts and tours. That’s why movie piracy seems worse, because movies or actors don’t make concerts! They don’t have any other way of income. Movie piracy is being achieved with the help of this new format called MPEG. This file format is used for compressing and playing video. Movie piracy was more common outside the web (people selling it on streets), but now that the online power has grown, it is very common to find all movies on the internet too.It is obvious that most information that appears on the web is against pirating, but there is also some information saying it is good (music piracy good, movie piracy good).
I think that piracy is just something that has to happen and it can´t be avoided. As in everything in media, there are always going to be gate jumpers to the actual gate keepers, and we are going to have to deal with that. What we have to do is try to look at some positive side of this. For example, it is true that pirating takes a lot of money from the movie and music industry, but it is also true that that money is going to a different type of industry (as pirates have to buy equipment and pay for online services). I think that people from movie and music business have to be smart with all this. They should find ways of becoming their own pirates and make profit from that. For example, movie makers could create an own website where they can play movies for free and with the best quality, but they can take advantage of that by charging for advertisings. In that way a lot of people would go to that website and they would still make more money. As for music, they should try selling cds at a lower price. Maybe they will not get much per cd, but they will certainly sell a lot more and maybe gain more money.
Here are two videos about piracy:
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