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Problems with Online Music

Problems with Online Music There are obviously huge problems in the recording industry and no one knows exactly what to do. Some people think that all online music should be free with no restrictions; others think that we should have to pay a fee for every song we download. There are really tons of options of what should be done; it’s just that every option has a different person disagreeing. I don’t think that anyone is going to figure out an option that will make everyone happy. It’s all just going to end up in a win-lose situation, with music listeners and new bands on the losing side. There is option one: all music through the Internet becomes free and unrestricted. This option is what music listeners want to see because they don’t wan tot have to pay for their music if they can get it for free. Some of the song collections people have gotten off the Internet are worth hundreds of dollars. If you think about how a regular length CD has twelve songs and costs fifteen dollars, a 500-song music collection should really cost $625, but they got it for free. New bands also like this option because it gets their music heard a lot easier. Most people would much rather go download a few songs of a band they have never heard of then go buy their CD not being sure whether the band is going to be any good. Then hopefully if that person likes the songs they got off the internet they will go out and buy the bands CD or at least buy some kind of other merchandise like a t-shirt or poster. The whole negative side to this option is for major bands and record labels. Major bands that sell millions of albums every time they release one will be hurt because the sale of all those albums gets them some good profit whereas for smaller bands that are new, they don’t see profit until the record company makes all their money back. The record labels also get hurt by this option because they make most of they’re money from the profit of the albums they sell. So it’s very obvious that this option hurts the industry the worse. This option will most likely end up falling into the second possibility for the future of music that the article lists. Then there is option number two that I think might happen which would be most like the way the recording industry has worked in the past. This option is what the big record labels have already started to do. That is charging for every song that a person downloads. The most feasible way to do this would be to make a law outlawing all music exchange programs like Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, Morpheus, and WinMX, among others. Then the recording industry should come together and build some kind of universal program that is available free but you have to pay for every song you download and all the money made goes straight to all the recording labels just like the money form CD sales. Music listeners would have to support this program because it is the most logical and they are not going to give up their music anyways. I personally think that this option would work the best for everyone even though the public might be a little upset about having to pay for something that used to not have to. All of the possibilities listed in the article did not seem feasible. I personally don’t think that any of them made any sense except for possibly the second possibility listed. The second option I just came up with would work out the best for everyone. It would be regulated and centralized and the recording labels won’t be hurt and new bands can still get new listeners since it won’t be expensive to download a few of their songs. This is the best option for everyone and I don’t see any major problems with it that wouldn’t be able to be worked out. I hope that someone finds a solution to this ever increasing problem and that it’s one that will work for everyone even if it’s nothing similar to my option number two. Bibliography:

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