it cannot allow for profitable business
There should be people gaining from the downloading of music. If it is being downloaded for free, the only person gaining is the consumer, when the consumer should always be the one that has to get something at their own expense, especially when it is someone elses work.
llegally at the expense of the CD firms. These artists and record labels are hurting, because they no longer have a steady source of revenue since their work is being pirated. This article suggests that these people starts looking for other sources of income besides music sales at this point because will the amount of music that is being downloaded illegally, those sales will no longer cut it. It suggests that they get their income from merchandise, sales, and tours. It also speculates that there may be a lot of potential profit in social networking sites such as Facebook. This article makes note of many events from Australia, where illegally downloaded music is especially a problem. In conclusion however this article forecasts that the future is bright. Many legal music downloading sites are becoming significantly cheaper and easier to use, and hopefully soon they will become the major way that people choose to download music and the illegal downloads will fade out and the artists and record labels will receive the retribution they deserve.
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