Music Trading

Technology is making thieves out of good honest men (or women). How so? First, by allowing consumers to copy music to cassettes, to burn music on CDs and now through Peer-to-Peer Music Trading (downloadable music from internet). Many music listeners do not think that copying music is a crime, but music label moguls see it differently. The truth of the matter is that it’s true. Copying music is stealing one’s intellectual property and/or copyright holdings. Now technology has taken it to a different level. Music listeners can now download music from the Internet. As a result, Peer-to-Peer Music Trading is causing the record companies to face a major business problem in sales. Marketing Professor Peter Fader believes, while music listeners are getting music for free, music businesses are getting free publicity.
Peer-to-Peer Music Trading has become a major problem for the music business. But there has been an investigation that reveals differently. Peter Fader who wrote a paper...