Music Piracy is on a continuous uprise, and is unlikely to seize any time soon. ‘Limewire,’ and other P2P programs are becoming easier to use to download illegitimate copies of music. CD burning, is another leading process in the piracy world.
Between the constant uprise in P2P technologies, and the use of CD burning (see cd-burning for more) technologies, new artists are going to continually find it harder to make a living in the recording industry. Putting a stop to piracy will more-than-likely not happen any time soon, so preventative measures need to be taken to decrease the availability of pirate music.
"We sell about 40% less albums than we did three or four years ago because of illegal downloading" (John Mayer)
"It is hard knowing that people are illegally downloading your songs when they could just as easily go and buy them." (Natalie Gauci)
File sharing is a method of distributing electronically stored information such as digital media including movies, TV shows, and music. One of the most common file-sharing methods is the peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution model. The following PDF provides a more in-depth analysis of P2P file-sharing. http://www.afact.org.au/pdf/home/AFACT_p2pfactsheet_RGB_2.pdf