Long time not seen my dear blog, sorry for almost forgetting about you. My life was quite generous for activities and I had no time to share with you. But don`t be upset! There is a new course appeared, called eBussines and I need you help again!
My dear friends tell me honestly, have you ever downloaded music via internet without paying? I bet you do. Nowadays there are hundreds of file sharing networks such as Piratebay or one of the most well-known, but already closed, Napster. They enable to download music, videos, games and software for free using P2P (Peer to Peer) concept. It gives internet users a possibility to share files and computer resources without having to go through a certain web server. The question is how they manage to get money if all the actions are free? There are several ideas about this:
- · First of all, it is possible to do with the help of contextual advertising and getting interest for every transition.
- · Secondly, there is nothing difficult to track from which region people download music. This can provide information about music preferences and can be sold to companies which are interested in statistics.
- · What is more, it is possible even to say which browser was used and what the OS on the computer is.
The problem that occurs is that recording companies are suing file sharing networks for illegal distribution of music. They argue that it affects executives` rights of musicians and decreases their profits. In case of copyright issues they are doing a right thing, but for me, as a general user, who is not belong neither musicians of record companies it does not matter. I enjoy downloading favorite music and videos and do not care about the difficulties it cases to corporations. That is why I strongly concerned that file sharing network will not disappear, even though there is a threat of SOPA on the horizon.
