Music pirates 'should be banned from internet'

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's report on downloads in 2007 shown only 1 in 20 music tracks were paid for. So Limewire is obviously one of if not the biggest problem for them. If the Internet companies gave information gave information out about the sites clients use then the agency could be able to ban people from using the Internet. The service provides aren't wanting to do that as obviously if they were the first to do so they would lose virtually all their customers. So even if the list was produced, millions upon millions of people do it, are they going to try to police the whole Internet. We need to try to avoid the Internet becoming like the roads (in the UK at least) where it is a constant battle that drivers feel they are continuously being picked on to be taxed and fined. Imagine if you started getting fine for downloading or a court appearance for uploading copyrighted content to youtube.

On the other hand it is technically unfair on artists who cannot sell albums because everyone is sharing the one copy uploaded to limewire by phil. Which then spreads, thinking about it this must be the biggest theat to the music industry in history as the next generation are just as bad if not worse than previous. Interestingly the amount of internet sales as in legal downloads has risen (not enough to swallow the loss in the CD sales). Normally its around 17p a track that isn't really much to give, having the option to not have the whole record is much better.

As far as I am concerned Internet radio is the best form of music on the internet, all the national radios have there own websites and online radio. See an earlier post on DAB digital radio for more information.