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1. Comment - UK law firm looks to begin prosecuting file sharers

   (Aug 23, 2008 - 7:35 AM)

   In contradiction to the in-your-face copyright warnings such as for films, piracy isn't theft, its copying, whether you think it's right or wrong that has to be admitted; if you steal a car the owner can no longer drive it, whereas if you copy a song the artist does not lose their material, or indeed any money if the individual wasn't going to buy it in the first place. Most people can appreciate both sides of this eternal arguement, leaving the choice being which side of the theoretical line they fall on.
   
   My view is that the outdated music industry needs to keep up to date and embrace new technology and business models, such as providing free music in return for displaying sponsored advertising (such as QTrax promised), whereby everybody wins. The fact is that the price for a CD single or album is extortionate, and if it were not for the realms of illegal downloads then far less music would be sold. Consider the software industry, many companies make their software easy to copy and use so that students who can't afford to buy them get accustomed to using their brand, so that when they move into a profession they will continue to use it and pay for legal copies. This is also true for the music and film industry; think of it as try before you buy and fairer rights for students (who aren't second class citizens, and don't choose not to work, but can earn very little money when working long hours with no financial return on their educational investment).
   
   Make it cheaper, make it fairer, don't rip-off the very people who make you what you are, and decist in the Americanism of "sue everyone", and the music industry would reep the rewards.