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 > One Million Sales in Just One Week > Piracy In the Age of Information > Music Downloads: Legal or Illegal?
dimarts, 13 de maig de 2003
This last April, Apple Computer, Inc., manufacturer of Macintosh computers, opened its iTunes Music Store, a new online service for downloading music. The store offers some 200,000 tracks, each of which can be downloaded for .99 USD a song.
Without having to download (and thus, buy) a song, users can listen to 30 second sound samples of each of these 200,000 songs, supplied by five recording companies (Universal, Sony, BMG, EMI, Warner). During the San Francisco launch, Apple top executive Steve Jobs presented songs that had been recorded by artists ranging from Bob Dylan, U2, Sting, Eminem and Sheryl Crow for exclusive distribution via iTunes. An added benefit to these features is that once downloaded, unlimited copies can be burned onto a CD-Rom for use on three different computers and record them using the increasingly popular iPods, digital music players that can store up to 7,000 songs.
 
One Million Sales in Just One Week)
+ Apple presented songs that had been recorded by Sheryl Crow.
Just a week after launching the new iTunes service, Apple Computers -recognized everywhere by its familiar apple logo- announced that it had sold one million songs. According to company officials, the bestseller list was topped by U2's Stuck in a Moment, followed by Coldplay's Cloks and Eminem's Lose Yourself. The bestselling album was Sea Change by Beck. And as it that weren't enough, more than 100,000 iPods were sold. All told, the innovation appears to be a great success, especially considering that Apple had thought to reach the one million mark after a month and not just a week after inaugurating iTunes. And this despite the fact that the service is currently only available to Mac users in the United States. The company has already announced that a Windows version will be available before the end of the year.
Piracy In the Age of Information
+ Online musical piracy is becoming increasingly widespread.
Aware that online musical piracy is becoming increasingly widespread, Apple had hedged its bets (naturally, for a good price) that online music would sell. According to some experts, illegal downloading of music has caused an estimated 25% decrease in recording sales over the last few years. Remember Napster? They were the first website to make free downloads available online. The company folded in the summer of 2001 after an unprecedented legal battle mounted by the North American recording industry. Currently, Kazaa and Morpheus allow users to 'download' programs for sharing musical files.
Music Downloads: Legal or Illegal?
+ There are plenty of people who consider free downloading of music a legitimate activity.
As we noted above, Apple arrived at an agreement with five of the major record labels. And they were smart to do so, since the record industry's campaign against illegal music downloading has been going on for years, as the Napster case illustrates. And more evidence exists. Only a few days ago, The New York Times published a notice that the top recording companies are developing software to prevent, or at least complicate, the downloading of musical files. Meanwhile, the Recording Industries Association of America (RIAA) has initiated an email campaign to web surfers trying to get free music online. They receive an alert that reads something along the lines of 'This is illegal! Distributing or downloading copyrighted music on the Internet without permission from the copyright owner is Illegal. And is the same as going into a CD store and stealing the CD'. Of course, not everyone shares the recording companies' opinion: there are plenty of people who consider free downloading of music a legitimate activity.
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