An ongoing problem exists and has existed since cassette tapes were invented, possibly longer, maybe even back to the day's of reel-to-reel. This problem is music piracy.
Music piracy shouldn't be a problem, not today, but history has shown that if you can get something for free most will. With the advent of the internet and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing music, video, and software piracy has gone nuts. With the added bandwidth people can download files in a matter of minutes depending on the size. I know a lot of people with thousands of songs in their collection of which very few were legally obtained.
But it doesn't need to be like this. There is a solution, trouble is that the music industry hasn't thought about it, yet. The answer is in the ISP's around the world. Nokia's got it right, a standard service for a flat rate that gets you unlimited access to music all for a flat subscription fee. Why not put that back through the ISP's? Why can't a part of my monthly internet fee be redirected to the publishers? And then I can download what ever I feel like?
Let's put it this way, I currently pay $90 per month for 90GB of downloads, why can't $10 go back to the recording industry? If every single person that pays for internet paid $10 per month back into the industry and then was authorised to download as much music as they wanted, the industry would, in theory, be millions of dollars better off, plus the customers would be happy, as would the actual recording artists.
Why can't people see this? I would even be willing to increase my monthly fee up $10 just so I could legally download music and movies(?).
Why can't people see this? I would even be willing to increase my monthly fee up $10 just so I could legally download music and movies(?).
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