Children Sharing More Music Through Mobile Phones
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Do you remember Shawn Fanning? Yes, the famous inventor of Napster that created a huge wave in western music industry in 1999. It was the first time a system was developed that enabled internet users to share music. The company was shutdown in 1999 but what it has started could not be stopped. Today, there are p2p file sharing systems. Now, mobile phones have music sharing system and teenagers are widely using it to share music with their friends. However, music industrials are not so threatened by this new idea as they were by the file sharing system in pcs. I am quoting from the report published on computeractive.co.uk:
A survey on how children using their phones, commissioned by Intuitive Media, found that children are using the Bluetooth feature in their mobiles to share music with their friends.
It found that almost a third of the 1,500 eight to 13 year olds questioned are using the Bluetooth function to share music with their friends. This is illegal without the permission of copyright holders.
However, according to Matt Philips, spokesman for the British record industry’s trade association the BPI: “Swapping songs via Bluetooth is a concern for the industry, it hasn’t caused the same problems as illegal p2p filesharing. This is because it’s copying on a one-to-one, rather than one-to-millions basis.”
Different music industrials are looking at this from different approaches. Robert Hart, co-founder, Intuitive Media, sees this file sharing system as a means of “viral marketing.”
The tragedy of this matter is that because of file sharing ultimately music industries are losing money and dragging this matter to court would make it more complex. The music companies have filed lawsuits and stop the Napster Company but ultimately they could not stop file sharing on internet. I think if the music companies try to make it a serious issue then in near future they would face similar situation.
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One Response to “Children Sharing More Music Through Mobile Phones”
It is true, and I am loving it! dancing all the time everywhere throw my cell! yay!
By Carol on Dec 12, 2006