As technology advances, it becomes increasingly harder to detect illegal downloading of music which is copyrighted online. The industry world wide lose over 12 billion dollars to piracy a year and over 400 million in tax revenue in the United States. Many attempts have been made to reduce this piracy online but it hasn't had the affect that officials and companies want which is to reduce piracy significantly and ultimately eliminate it. The most recent solution which i find could help the industry is a program which acts as a fingerprint and detects illegal music downloading which would help track these illegal acts that are being committed every day. The technology is patent pending and its called DIF - Digital Interactive Fingerprinting for the detection and prevention of online music and video piracy.
Whether this solution works is yet to be seeing but with the rapid technological advances, companies who are hurt by piracy must figure out a way to stay two steps ahead in order to combat these threats that are damaging their bottom line.
As consumers grow more technological savvy, this might seem like an impossible task to accomplish but this is the trade off that the music industry has to conform with in order to stay in business, ultimately, they might be able to reduce internet piracy but its virtually impossible to eliminate it completely. In the meantime, file sharing sites such as Limewire continue to exist. Until next time, i'll be back, i have to go get the latest song of Pitbull, it sounds catchy.
This could be an effective idea if implemented unanimously. But again music pirates always find a way around these safeguards and so if implemented it would mean a constant improvement in the fingerprint program security which could prove to be challenge in its own accord! But either way it would at least make the task of copying difficult if not impossible!
ReplyDeleteI like the Digital Interactive Fingerprint idea; however, I too feel like this will not stop illegal downloads. This piracy business is years ahead of our time. I feel that if a software like this does come out, then chances are I will be able to get a pirated copy before its release date. For piracy, there are just to many obstacles in the way: millions of users, millions of websites now offering downloads, millions of potential websites, free downloads, convenient downloads, ability to download 10 songs per minute, etc.
ReplyDeleteIt's a force the music business can't stop, just only hope to slightly contain it. If put in there position I would try to stop this by offering either cheaper downloads, straight downloads directly from the artist's website, or perhaps make monthly or bulk downloads available. Either way something must be done quick, because pirating is just not for tech savvy ages (10-30) anymore as my mom was so happy to download Lionel Richie a few weeks back.