The Unethical Piracy of MP3 File Sharing

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In this paper, it is shown that illegal file sharing opponents feel it is their right to have music for free, but hold at the same time, the integrity of musicians to earn money for their music. However, there is no arbitration for the artist when music is shared between various entities on the Internet. The paper shows that when there is no regulation at all for music to be passed without a fee, the artist is invariably hurt by this activity.

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"Internet music piracy became a big issue since MP3 technology was invented, which has become a major issue in how corporate music industry deals with `pirated' songs on the Internet. There are two distinct sides to the MP3 issue: (1) A war between the rights of MP3 users and illegal file sharing companies, and (2) those musicians and record companies that desire to control and regulate the profits of their music. While new technology advances, the musician and the record companies face new challenges for protecting the copyright of their music, since file sharing `pirates' steal millions of dollars worth of music from them. Moreover, advanced compression techniques (MP3 format) that have been distributed across the Internet enable high quality music to be freely available to anyone on the Internet."

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