Online Piracy; the Economic Effects of the Music Industry

The world phenomenon with technology has finally infiltrated into the recording industry. College students around the world are getting their favorite music songs and downloading them from the internet illegally. College students are the majority of the downloader's, but with the release of the MP3 player and the I-Pod just about anyone now a day goes and downloads music songs illegally. The recent phenomenon came about when college students were using a program called Napster …showed first 75 words of 3442 total…

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