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Songs: Rules

Introduction

There are a lot of rules around songs and song production. How will we keep the copyright owners protected in the future? How will Internet and all this mess with how to protect mp3 music affect the recording industry and artists? Some companies are working hard to reach a reasonable protection, which at the same time does not destroy the possibilities to play it on every platform and Ipods. I guess most of the music fans around the globe have not missed the many complaints ex. Itunes have got because of that their protected music can not be played on every Ipod.

Big battles

This music format mp3, which easily can be copied, has caused a big battle in many ways. The industry want to find another format which is easier to manage and during this waiting, development and investigations everywhere, the artists are affected. Some are speculating about that 90% of all circulating mp3:s would be used without the copyright owners permission. If that would be true it would be terrible, and ahead a possible threat for the mp3 to be used at all.

The first thing affecting and actually frightening me when reading about those things is "what can I do to protect myself and my own website?" I can really feel this ticking bomb of suspense inside when linking to other sites where I know they are hosting mp3:s, even though I am checking them out very careful before. So, shortly I really feel uncomfortable with mp3 due to all these indistinctive rules but simultaneously I love the format.

Other formats?

So, how is this competition in how to produce another format going?
Surprise, surprise, two new hearts have been created and are named 1DVD-A and SACD which is two high resolution formats demanding multi-format players. How will this work online? How can we afford it?

Of course this is good for the record companies as they now can resell what they have in their catalogs but the main question is if the customers will buy this? After the easy Mp3 revolution where every single soul with a little knowledge within music producing on their computers have been able to create their own files, I think the Mp3 will remain. I believe in that it will force the industry either accepting it than excluding and that way find protect able ways out of this music piracy world. Then we all, including the artists will sleep on cotton.

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