New music report

Few years ago we can only buy music on vinyl, compact disc or tape cassettes which could be bought in record shops. In this time, we could only dream about buying music without leaving home. Now it is possible because we can buy lots of music in shops but also on the Internet. Also music fans don’t have to buy the whole album but singles which you like or which you want to buy. Singles on iTunes are 79p which is cheaper than a £1.99 CD single. If you buy music through the internet you can download it straight onto your computer in few seconds or minutes, it takes less time than go out to the music shop, except if you live above the music shop, but if you want to buy one single, the internet is only way to do it.

Today buying music is very simple. However there are millions of people who don’t want spend their money buying music so they decide to download it from illegal web sites or p2p programs (peer to peer) e.g. ‘Emule’, ‘uTorrents’, ‘limewire’ or ‘Bearshare’. These programs allow you to download music from every part of the Earth from every internet server which shares those files for every one who don’t want to spend money on music. To download the files from servers for free you have to sign in or register, but the information which you give there can be used through police and then they can find you and charge you with a criminal offence of copyright infringement. Jammie Thomas from America was caught sharing and downloading illegal music via peer to peer site Kazaa. She had to pay $9250 per song because she had an account on ‘Kazaa’. So if you want to download music for free you have to beware of police which can find you!