It is quite simple to obtain music today, one can purchase songs and download music videos on the World Wide Web with just a few mouse clicks. This is an achievement brought about by the digital technologies and the Internet which has enabled its users to stream or download musical works. Online music stores such as the Amazon and Grooveshark offer media libraries containing a huge variety of songs to the users for a fee while others may do so for free. However, just as it is simple to purchase music legally, it is as simple for Internet pirates to use the web as a platform to up - and download music files illegally. The increased use of technology has given a nod to reproduction of unauthorized …show more content…
This initiative is taken to tame the rogue users of the music provided online by making mandatory the consumer rights in the field of online contents. According to Rott, setting up mandatory rules on sales law would set limits to party autonomy, in safeguarding a minimum quality of the product that cannot be abrogated by contract (452). Under the current American copyright law passed in 1976, legal protection is solely provided to the copyright owners assigned and it only covers exclusive rights for the original works through composition from which they can be perceived as real owners, reproducers, or otherwise communicated in the contract (Bai, 62). The Copyright of 1976 law was meant to update the prior law that existed since 1909. The laws then prohibited nearly every aspect of media practice making the music industry rigid and insufficient. Likewise, the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 sought to include the use of the internet but would face some of the biggest challenge in the industry. The timing was due as the introduction of online streaming had already been welcomed and that despite the acknowledgment of the technology in various ways it did welcome the option for downloading of musical content. On the contrary individual members of the entertainment industry highly expectant in this technology, but feared that internet users would easily get away with important files which could otherwise be illegally acquired or download video and audio files from the internet. In general, the legalizing of music download and considering the intentions as fair use and fair industry practice would amount to enhancing the copyright laws.The online music users are always satisfied with current musical work which cannot be replaced by anything simpler and market