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Summary: Hurting The Music Recording Industry
Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting the music recording industry?
I think it is actually music piracy that is hurting the music recording industry. They need to take a stand on the situation to help prevent the loss of revenue to music theft. I still have the same stand point that if you wouldn’t still the physical copy of the CD from the music store. The, what makes you think it is okay to steal the digital copy of the CD online. The music is stolen either way, and the money is lost for the copy. I think piracy is going to continue to escalate as technology rapidly expands. That requires measures to be taken to help stop the theft of others music, art, or software.
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