Copyright violation

Copyright violation is just another expression for copyright infringement. The definition of a copyright violation is as follows: unauthorized and therewith illegal use of any copyrighted material, which is covered by the copyright laws, whereby the rights of the owner, in this case they are monopolistic, exclusive rights, were violated.

 

Here are a few examples: unauthorized copying of audio compact disks which are copyright protected, unauthorized copying of commercial DVD movies, unauthorized use of music composed by someone else, copying of a commercially published book without author's or publisher's consent, just to list a few.

Copyright infringement became a part of the popular culture through the broad popularity of the Internet, especially since the World Wide Web and the mp3 format were developed. Many users of the internet felt that public sharing of the music they owned was okay and that downloading of other people's collections was a fair trade. Globalization of music business and the huge industry behemoths controlling the music industry lead to the sick state where talentless bankers and lawyers started deciding what the public wanted to listen to, which lead to diminishing sales.

 

The audio CDs and the so called "new talent" were just awful; most of the releases had only one good song on the record, and the customers felt betrayed and duped. Now nobody wanted just to run out and buy the disc, just because it got released and the commercial as well as the video said it was cool.

 

People wanted to know what they were buying, and they refused to buy junk. Good releases sold very well no matter how many illegal downloads were registered, like Dido's first album "No Angel", like Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi". Nevertheless, the lawyers and bankers leading the music world couldn't admit, not even to themselves, that their incompetence was to blame for the diminishing sales, so they were looking for someone else to blame.

 

Unfortunately, at that time there was a huge peer to peer network active, Napster, where people were predominantly sharing music. This came just right for the lawyers and bankers and they used billions of dollars to destroy the service, instead of using it to make more money, which would, of course, just prove again that they have no idea how to do music business properly.

Since then, nothing actually changed. There are still peer to peer networks sharing music, just not napster, the sales of really good records are skyrocketing and the lawyer and banker mentality of the Industry CEOs are still producing music garbage that nobody wants to buy. Perhaps instead of falsifying results pertaining to the copyright infringement studies, the industry should allow talented musicians to work and publish music.

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