Social Networking Sites Impact Music Downloads

Today I've found another interesting article on Online Piracy. The title of this article is Social Networks Impact Music Downloads; Piracy Growing. When I saw the title, I was a bit curious on how social networks can impact music download so I read it to find out more. The article is created based on surveys that have been conducted by Entertainment Media Research (EMR) and law firm Olswang. To read the article, kindly click on the article's title above.

The number of people downloading legally has dropped because people can download it online for free through user profiles from social networking sites. According to the results from the article, 39% of the social networking sites users have songs embedded to their profile. By doing so, their friends who viewed their profile might like the songs embedded on it and ending up searching it from the internet to download for free.

I am a social networking site user too and I embed songs to my profiles too. I find it very convenient for me to access my songs when I online from somewhere else. I have friends who are telling me that they think that the songs embedded to my profile is nice and they've already downloaded it. They even give me the link to download it. The songs are available in 320kbits and it's free of charge. No wonder why people are opting for illegal downloads nowadays. It is because they can get the songs in best quality without paying a single cent.

I would suggest to the others who embed songs to their profiles, please do not allowed your users to download it. Using websites such as Imeem can help to prevent illegal download cases because other users will not be able to download the songs.

Online Piracy hits the Game Industry too

When online piracy is mentioned, most of us will think that only the music and movie industry are affected by it but actually there are more and one of it includes the game industry. Although gaming is a popular hobby now especially for teenagers all around the world but somehow, games studios are closing down. How can this happen you ask? The only reason is because of piracy.
While searching for information on this issue, I've found an article which is very well researched to show the impact of piracy on the game industry.

"If there's a single topic that's guaranteed to cause heated debate among PC gamers today, it's piracy and the impact it's having on the PC gaming industry. Almost every gamer you speak to has a strong opinion on this topic, ranging from full support for piracy to total condemnation of it..."more
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

The article consist of everything you need to know about the relation between online piracy and game industry. Not only this article, there are other people who are having problem with this issue too and sound out their dissatisfaction on it.

"Spore was without doubt the most anticipated game of the year. The game itself has blown away the people who have played it, but the DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally. Already Spore has been downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and this number is increasing rapidly." <more>
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-to-drm-080913/


The second article is about the most anticipated game, Spore. Someone leaked it on Torrent resulting the game to be downloaded and played by more than 500,000 people around the world. Imagine how much the company that produced the game had lost because of this. Usually as a user, we will not care about all this but imagine some day in future, you've put in a lot of effort and hard work to come with a game which is supposed to be the hit of the year and few months before the game was launched, your game is already available for download online and free of charge. All your hard work and effort is paid with nothing.

I am a gamer myself and I know developing a game is not an easy task, what more a good game. I do not download the games from internet illegally like most people do. I hope that other gamers out there will take my heed too. Stop downloading it illegally online or else one day, they might just stop producing quality games for us.

what cause online piracy??

Online piracy is harmless? For creator, they will said no!! For others, they will said Yes!! obviously is harmless!! Why for creator it will said no? because, they cant get any money if online piracy happen. User just download, download and distribute to their friend, share with friends. For others, yea!! download, listen, free!! high quality!! download the entire album just need 30 minute, but if i drive to any Shopping mall to get it cost me RM49, and i need take 30 minute time to travel, it waste my petrol!! actually creator should lower down the price so that all of the teenager can afford to buy. Secondly, i think all the music industry should work like what Apple iTunes doing. You can listen the chorus part of the music, and only decide whether buy or not buy. It not require you to buy the whole album, but u can choose only a song or which of your favorite song. If music industry, film industry do this, i think most of the consumer will spent their money to buy. Because sometime is not worthy just because of a song and consumer spent the money to get the whole album. Therefore, creator and music industry should considered to let consumer choose which album to get.

Environmental Factor?

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[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mfl/lowres/mfln199l.jpg

Do you agree with me? Yes? No?

Petrol price increment few months ago resulted almost all the product prices to increase as high as possible. Few months later the petrol price drop back to normal, but do the product prices drop as well? The answer is NO!!!..now the FMCG, entertainment and almost all routine products price still as high as the Fraser Hill compare to price in few months ago.

Monopolists of the routine product are getting richer with the price increment but not the citizen. Monthly income that never increase but the price still expensive after those period, how do citizen survive with such price increment? The increased of the product price, people intend to try to buy a product for lower price, so, the online piracy and pirated products are getting popular.

Anti-Piracy organization often held anti campaign to urge the citizen for not support the piracy. Why don't they fix the tax system, salary system, product price system instead of standing at air-con hall to urging people to stand away from piracy.

With the economic crisis now, people tend to support more on piracy. Low monthly income, high demand of the price in FMCG, entertainment makes people cant afford to buy the genuine products.

Solve the basic factor of the piracy so the piracy issue will slowly decrease too.

Teenager addict to online piracy

This few days, i can always heard from my friend they are watching a hong kong drama name "The gem of life". But, all of them are download from a website, in the moment, i know that, online piracy is getting serious and serious. New album of Jay Chou just release 2 month ago, i still remember, there is a lot of people queue to get the album on the days release, but, i just received a phone call from my friend, they told me, just download from internet, it free, and the music are high quality. Nowadays, 9 out of 10 college student are involve in online piracy. Who we should blame on? We should blame on the album or movie is selling at high price, or we should blame that student want save more money for their pocket money. This is a very subjective question. Hope you all can figure it out and leave your comment here. But, there is still have some people don't have the knowledge of computer, therefore, they are hardly involve in onliine piracy. If you imagine, everyone know computer very well, even the old uncle drinking coffee in the kopitiam know how to use computer, i can very sure, they can get the top rank award to involve in illegal downloading. I think teenager figure this by themselves.

Why Online Piracy Getting Popular Among Internet?

Thinks that this topic same as previous post? Read first....

Online piracy is getting popular nowadays. They publish pirated music, video, software through the internet because they want to make their website to become "hotspot" for their home page. The word "hotspot" means favorite web page among the others. More user visit the web page, means more circulation for the web page, more circulation means valuable and the factor begin, is to earn money.

How they earned money through web page? Thing that familiar among us, Advertisement.
For the advertiser's mind, if website is very popular and a lot user surf to the page, means the impact is more effective. All of you can see those websites that published pirated products, their web pages normally came together with the advertisement. Do not believe? Try yourself.

These days, people are getting smart, they using free forum and allow third party to upload the pirated videos, software, musics. Why they are doing like that? It is because they will not get involve into any lawsuit in the future. Don't understand? It means if a particular products author, owner sue the forum owner, they can give reason that the pirated products are not published by them. Some more the forum registered members do not need I/C to apply for the membership. So, advantages sided on internet users, forum owners but not the product authors.

Money come by $0.01 to $1.00 per user surfed to the particular web page depend on country/advertiser. Imagine, there are 1000 users surf to the pirated published website per day/week/month. How much is that? Count yourself.

*More facts to come, stay tuned in this blog :)

Is Online Piracy Beneficial to the Users?

The title of this post was the question we asked last week in our poll. The result shows that 50% of them thinks that online piracy is beneficial to them, 12% said no and 37% of them thinks that online piracy might be beneficial to them. From the result,we can clearly see that most users seem to agree that online piracy is beneficial to them regardless it's illegal.

Most people of Generation Y are computer literate. This is the reason why online piracy is much more popular and preferred by people nowadays. It's so simple, just get the sources for "free downloads" and with just a few simple clicks you can get what you want. Besides that, downloading from the internet is totally free while you need to pay if you are getting a pirated DVD from outside. The only thing we need to pay is our internet and electricity bills, agree?

Online piracy is more popular because it is harder to trace the person who has committed it, and the authorities are more lenient on the laws imposed for online piracy compared than piracy in real life. For example, you can easily track where your friend bought the pirated DVD from but it's not easy for you to track the original source for a movie that you friend downloaded from the internet because it might have been passed around through hundreds of people.

We should not be abusing the internet to do illegal things that will harm others. Most of the offenders are teenagers and young adults such as students. Although there is a saying that "Sharing is Caring" but we must be careful on what we are sharing. Sharing things that are gained through piracy is definitely not caring.

This is an image that I've found on the internet and I quite agree with it so I'm posting it along to share with all of you. Do you all agree or disagree with this quote? Feel free to leave your opinion or comments ;)

Piracy violated COPYRIGHTS, What? Who? How?

COPYRIGHT? Is it means by "I May Copy It, Right?" NO, its NOT!!!
Lots of people know the meaning of COPYRIGHT, but do they really know?


Here are some basic information about COPYRIGHT......

"WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?"
Copyright in relation to musical, literally, film work is the exclusive rights which the owner has over its use and his entitlement to rely on the law to prevent others from using such work without his/her consent. The Copyright Act of 1987 defines copyright in relation to a works as being the exclusive rights to:

• reproduce a work in any material form;
• communicate a work to the public;
• perform, show or play a work to the public;
• distribute copies of a work to the public by sale or transfer of ownership;
• commercial rent a work to the public

"WHO OWNS THE COPYRIGHT?"
The author of the work is the first owner of the copyright. However, where the work is written by an employee in the course of his duties, then the employer is regarded as the legal author of the work. On the other hand where the making of a work is commissioned and in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the author and the ownership of the copyright by him is only surrendered if he should assign his exclusive rights to the commissioning party.

"WHAT IS THE DURATION OF COPYRIGHT?"
Generally speaking, copyright in the work subsists during the life of the author and seventy (70) years after his death. As regards a work of joint authorship, the life of the author who dies last is used for the purpose of calculating copyright duration of the works.

"HOW IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGED?"
The copyright in works is infringed by a person who, not being the owner of the copyright, published, sales, modification without permission of the copyright owner, does or causes any of above mentioned acts controlled by copy right under the Copyright Act of 1987.

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