Question

Describe the development of legal music downloading from the Internet. Mention the forms in which it is available today and name at least one company that provides each form. Mention the landmark event that shift the Internet downloading emphasis from the free file sharing to legal purchase of music through the Internet.

Answer 1

With the growing importance of Internet on daily basis, its use for varied range of applications and requirement is being explored in very innovative ways. Some new applications are been added to this more often than not.

One of the highly popular applications is to download the songs from some of the famous sites such as Torrent or Saavan.com. There are a lot of music forms are available online such as Pop music, Folk music and Music videos from popular movies. Some of the leading music companies such as Sony is offering all the varied range of options.

There were initial days when Piracy law was not that strict and there were a lot of illegal downloading and sharing was in practice. Due to this, Directors and owners of the music companies were facing a lot of financial losses.

Taking cognizance of it, Government in every country toughened the anti-piracy law and directed all the state law enforcement agencies to have a strict vigil on the law breaking elements. Also a new cyber law was also introduced to check on the potential hackers and habitual offenders.

These measures certainly helped the owners of Music albums and filmmakers and as per current tradition videos are being released in more controlled manner on multiple sites or applications such as Amazon videos, Netflix and other parallel interfaces.

Also interested audience can buy their choice of videos from other internet sites while paying the cost for the same.