June 25, 2009

Free Music Downloads

Information technology has brought many advantages to the life of a common man. In many situations this is a win-win game for the both service provider as well as service user. In some situations it is easy to identify its win-lose (or lose-win depending on where you stand!) situation but some situations are complex to determine who is winning and who is losing. Online music downloads is one of those curious case.

If you have a decent speed internet connection and know (that really does not matter! You can Google!) Web address, you can download any song in the world. While this gives a freedom to users to download, modify and listen to any song, this does create issues from the IPR (Intellectual Property rights) perspective. Think of it, someone took numerous hours to write and musically ornate a song and there is a user who, simply by few clicks on Mozilla Firefox, can download the entire song without having to pay a single penny! As someone pointed, this is equivalent to shop lifting where someone has spent hours in creating a product and a stealer simply picks up from the shop without paying anything in return. On the face of this argument, it equates someone downloading free music to a shoplifter.

In case you don’t already have it, download the browser Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com. It is mandatory for downloading your music. Install this browser and then go to Firefox. Type your search for “Video DownloadHelper” and select the one by Mig. Now add this to Firefox and shut the browser. You will see a new icon when you restart Firefox again.Now go to the website http://www.dizzler.com and click on the option”Open Dizzler Player. Type the name of the song and performer in the explore box. Find the remedy song. Click it and it will play. Look at the downloadhelper icon-it should be colorized and touching. Click the arrow next to it. Find the song you are listening to through Dizzler in the catalog and click it. Save the Mp3 anywhere you desire after naming the downloaded file. While many people “have an aversion to paying for tune,” many people are also averse to paying for things like automobiles, jewelry, shoes, etc.. And they take them by unfair means. This is a crime. In the same way if you download copyrighted music without permission from the owner, its a crime too, just like grabbing a jacket from the supermarket. It is not right to purloin a song or book just because you figured out a cunning way to rip off someone’s tune. However, you can find boundless downloads for promotional purposes only legally to Download Music Free

Royalty is a curious concept. This means that a percentage of the sale is provided to the copyright holder of the work of art, process or invention. The piece of art could be a book or a musical symphony or a painting. Any expression of human feelings in the form of art can be copyrighted and hence a royalty on the copyright becomes due as soon as the sale proceeds are obtained by anyone on the copyrighted work. The artist or his nominees, after his death, keep receiving royalty so long as the work of art is fetching sale proceeds due to its market value. As anyone would realize the more classical an item is, the more perpetual sale revenue it will bring in.

One more aspect which needs to be highlighted is the legal factor in the Free Music downloads. As most of the free music sites are located in the countries where free music downloads are not illegal, people from those countries could be downloading the music where this is illegal. There is no effective mechanism so far to restrict such sites on a national level hence the onus lies on the poor user who may not be aware that he might be inviting litigation related to copyrights infringement by innocently downloading the free content.

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