Peer to Peer Music Sharing and It's "Real Effects" on the Industry

Free Music, free songs, free downloads... Who wouldn't be tempted to that?! We all love music, especially if it's free! :) You might be wondering however, "Is it just ok to promote or support P2P (Peer to Peer) networks? Lots of people download music and movies using file sharing software. Especially young people, those who grew up with Internet, find it totally normal to download music. Most of them are very adept at finding their kind of music and downloading it straight to their PC.


Online piracy has cut into national music sales by nearly a third since 1999, sending record and film revenues into a downward spiral, which hits everyone in the industry hard, from the record store clerks, songwriters, and technicians, to the artists themselves. Sometimes referred to as P2P, file sharing applications like the original Napster are a virtual treasure trove of music, movies, and software. If you use P2P software to download music, movies, or software, you may also be sharing those files to others.


Increasingly frustrated by the rise of illegal downloading, the music and film industries have been making examples of individual file-swappers. During the past year, the music and film industries have been bombarding colleges and universities with notices of illegal downloads of music and movie files by students. Recently, the music industry filed suit against four college students across the country, seeking billions of dollars in damages.


Despite all these lawsuits targeting campus pirates, more than half of all college students still download music and movies illegally, according to the University of Richmond’s Intellectual Property Institute. The music industry is fighting a losing battle to stop this downloading; they should realize that it is impossible to stop the downloading of music, it will only grow. Trying to stop it is a dead end street, it is much better to use the Internet.


Many musicians, artists, and software developers are changing the way they do business and are providing their works on the Internet for free. Maybe this is the way it should be. Musicians could make their money with performing, they could use the Internet to promote their music, and so they can charge more for their concerts. In the future they could even use the Internet to broadcast their live shows and in this way make more from a single concert. Then they still have a lot of other money making opportunities, for example commercials. A lot of musicians make a lot of money this way.


What ever the future brings, no one knows, but it is pretty sure that downloading of music for free from the Internet is here to stay, and the musician of today will be better of if they understand this and use it to their advantage.

Grooving on the music with the cool new features of iPod Classic

I really love my iPod classic and just like me, you might be one of the proud owner this cool, eye-candy shiny gadget. It's thin, sleek and modern design, would surely make anyone fall in love with this baby.

iPod classic is very rich in features and it is the most innovative, and the most lovely(for me) released iPod. This portable media player is marketed by Apple and is the most sophisticated model of the iPods. There have been six generations of iPods and iPod classic is the latest one. With advanced technology of user interface, operating system and some other features ipod classic is the latest ipod by Apple.


Though iPod classic has got many things similar with its previous generation iPod the advanced technology lies in its whopping hard drives. I own an 80GB iPod classic but there is also a 160GB model, which is an ideal archive for your songs and videos. The other change that you can notice inside the iPod classic is OS that has been upgraded with the menu system. The other major change that is noteworthy is the battery life. In smaller version with 80 GB, you can get 5 hours of video and 30 hours of songs. The larger version with 160 GB memory you can get 7 hours of video and 4 hours of music.


If you look at the features of the iPod classic you will find many pros and cons. The first thing that will catch your fancy is the dual screen menu system. In this system you will find the menus covering only half the screen. Some critics say that it would be beneficial only if you need to see something else in the same screen. Otherwise, it is just a waste of space on the screen. But as for me, I still find the upgrade for the interface excellent. In the sixth generation iPod classic Apple has introduced a more powerful search system. You are going to store a lot of files in this device and the search by spelling system is a pretty useful upgrade. The video of the iPod classic is not much different from the iPod but you can get a marginally better quality in iPod classic. The better thing is that, you can play a full length of film on your iPod classic in one charge.


The games included are also fun to play. I personally like to play vortex but there are also other games such as iQuiz, Klondike which are all new and have much improved graphics. On the downside however, this device is not well-suited for 5G games. Even there is no other game available other than these three games. And the chances are also there that the polished metal back is prone to scratches (and I really hate to see my iPod getting scratched).


The chief difference between ipod classic and its previous version is its capacity of 80GB and 160GB, its new software and smaller shape. Ipod classic is thinner and lighter. Basically, it is a refinement of 5th generation iPod. And you can find it as an evolutionary step by Apple in the field of iPod than a revolutionary one. If you like music and videos very much (just like me) whether on the go, just hanging around or relaxing, then this gadget would be definitely be best for you.