Criteria A

Criteria A:
In April 2007 a survey was conducted amongst college students nationwide on the issue of illegal downloading, an estimated 67 percent of the student body do not care about illegal downloading, because they are not concerned about the illegality of it they just care about the access and the cost . Even if the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gets involved. (Hynes). It seems this problem does not just arouse with college students, a large number of people world wide are not bothered with illegal downloading habits, though a survey conducted by Microsoft shows that students between seventh and 10th grade are less likely to download illegally if they are informed of the laws about sharing and downloading content online.(Redmond) A report done by the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stated that ninety-five per cent of music is illegally downloaded online. (BBC)
In the past when people still bought vinyl records at record stores, piracy and illegal downloading was not a problem, and even if people thought of copying them it would have been hard to achieve. A few bootleg records were made from live performances but that was as far as it went and therefore record companies were not worried. When sound were made digital by CDs record companies began to become worried since this gave people the opportunity to rip off tracks by CD burners and then put them onto personal computers and give them to their peers. Over the internet people were quickly able to reproduce and illegally share music with an unlimited amount of people.
Then came the problem of copyright, the digital revolution that gave users the chance to use digital content in creative new ways has made it impossible for copyright holders to control the distribution of music.