Thursday, April 16, 2009

Free Music?

The legal system provided copyright law in order to protect artists' creative output. This applies to artists, scientists, teachers or anybody that created something. 

The problem is that many people disregard copyright law,  and this disregard is made worse by the fact that the law is not always enforced. Even though some people have been sued for downloading copyrighted music from the Internet, millions of people continue to do so.

What does that tell us about the law? Is it any good if it is not fully enforced? And why do people choose to obey certain laws and ignore this one? Their behaviour suggests that people demand music to be free.
 
On the other hand the many people who use iTunes do pay for their music online. Maybe it's because iTunes presentation is and functionality is attractive to them.


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