Friday, June 8, 2012

media and internet

The internet in the modern world is so fast and so easy to use.  My four year old neice is already an expert on the web.  She'll click the ipad apps and be on her way.  I think children are programmed to know computers and the internet as a second language right from birth.  The media world is all over the web.  Music is the most common form of a media product.  And there are many issues with music on the web.   The internet has made it very easy to purchase, download, steal, sell, and distribute almost anything you can imagine. The internet has made people in the music industry a lot of money (sales, advertising, products), but it has also cost them a lot of money (theft). For every sale of a music product online, there are just as many people downloading and sharing that same music with their friends and family. It is very easy to download a program that downloads the songs. Copyright laws say its illegal, but how many people no that? Or how many acually care?  How many people click  that check box without reading the guidlines?  It happens so much, some people dont care and some people are ignorant and dont want to know.

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