Well, it seems that that is where most of the file sharing services on the internet has gone global to avoid persecution in their home countries. File sharing companies have moved their servers off-site to remote and secure locations in the never ending cat and mouse battle between these people who governments call criminals but most of us patronize because of the tons of free stuff that can be acquired form them. Dangers lurk in every corner of the free file sharing world but still many patronize them due to the cost of legal downloads nowadays.
Most Developed countries have strict and enforced laws regarding copyright infringement and other intellectual rights laws but elsewhere around the world, not too many countries are quite stringent due to the lack of funding and resources. Surprisingly, one of the most used file sharing servers are based in Russia where there are not much in terms of international copyrights laws and coverage by the government. Other countries like Switzerland with their strict adherence to privacy laws have servers locked down in bank vaults that only the owners can open. Some of the most creative people on the market like the guys of Pirate Bay even went mobile taking their file sharing servers with them on the road where they can be quite hard to trace.
P2P file sharing sites still abound but there are still a lot of legal issues to be settled in the individual countries and many have begun to crack down on the many file sharing services that used to promote illegal file sharing services but have now started to turn legal paid download sites. The future may be bright for digital music and other media but as governments crack down on file sharing sites which is sure to have committed violations of one type or the other in the quest to tame the digital music revolution.
Tags: Digital Music sharing, DRM, Global Piracy Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, Pirate-Bay
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music
Good news for promoters of Digital Music Rights, it seems like the newer generation of music fanatics are preferring more of the licensed audio CD’s they buy of stores as opposed to those they get of the internet. They say they prefer to get the best tracks of their favorite independent artists off the shelves where they can show of the artwork and get the bonus tracks as opposed to the totally legal tracks they get from ITunes or other sources that charge an average of $1.00 per song.
I mean, we still get the hottest tracks and music from P2P and other file sharing sites students say in an article from the Stanford Daily, yet they have a knack for supporting independent artists who do get to come out with nice music yet they are not available online due to lack of commercial backing. They may or may not have these songs form the other sources yet still opt to buy the real thing to allow their favorite artists to get the money they deserve to promote and improve their music, for who knows they might make it big someday.
These new additions to the digital age of music after the reason for the huge increase in the sales of audio CD are who suddenly feel the urge to go original. They are after the artwork and literature from the originals. They buy them of the shelves after having them for sometime off the internet wanting more from the artists that the digital forms can have. There are those who still go purely illegal, but the majority are beginning to see the light so to speak in terms of the advances their favorite artists get from the sponsorships and other stuff they earn off the legal stuff. Many students get music through ITunes which is one of the most popular music source and playback devices due to the iPod which is almost in every classroom. They accompany their users from the shower to the canteen to the gym when they are used again and again. Their small size makes them ideal for students who seem to love music from all genres and artists from all over as they seek distance form hectic school life.
Tags: Audio Cd's, DRM, Paid-Legal-Downloads
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, ipods
