music priacy

Piracy has been a problem for the music industry on a number of levels. Ever since the Internet began saturating American culture, the number of pirated songs available has increasingly become a serious threat to the entire music industry, especially record labels and music stores. Advanced compression techniques (mp3 format) have been distributed across the Internet that enable high quality music to be freely available to anyone on theInternet.

The "mp3" fad started in dorm rooms of college students where music could be shared across the campus network with thousands of others. We investigated the ethical implications of music piracy from the perspectives of the college student and various components of the music industry. The general term "piracy" refers to the illegal duplication and distribution of sound recordings and takes three specific forms: counterfeit, pirate and bootleg.
Jason Zuman, a Santa Clara University student, encoded 12 songs into mp3 format on Nov. 4, 1998,...