User:TaliRayn

Im my paper I will explore the relation between music file sharing systems and the purchase of tradiitonal music formats (CD's and records)

The Idea
Napster-the first music file sharing system at the internet was created in 1999 by Shawn Fanning, a student at Northeastern University, USA. Napster was unlike any other Mp3 Web site at the time. It did not provide access to music files to download, but instead was a file transfer program which linked between different users that were searching for songs. After a few months, Napster was a mass phenomenon with more than 65 milliom users worldwide

The music industry (namely, the record companies) reacted immediatetly by claiming that Napster and its alikes are violating copyright laws and that music piracy over the internet affects negatively on the purchase of CD's and records.

My Thesis
I will argue that the music industry is dominated by five record companies that lock down music and control creativity. I will show that copy right laws have a destructive affect that serves only the record companies and other administrative organisations; some claim today that these laws should be abolished in the light of the new economy created by the internet.

File sharing systems, I will srgue, enable to free the flaw of music around the world; they provide access to many and different types of music and artists and behave as an advertising tool.

Many reseraches beileve that file sharing will not substitute traditional music formats, and that purchase of music will increase accordingly. Historically, it was allways assumed that new technology will replace the old one, but reality has proved that in most cases the new technology plays a complimenting role which benefits both sides.

My Proposal
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The survey
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