file sharing

file sharing
file sharing is a practice in which people share files free of price through the Internet and torrents such as Limewire. In certain countries, such as Sweden, these programs are not illegal, which grants allows people in these countries to run servers such as Pirate bay, a file sharing host. this becomes problematic when people from other countries download music where the act is illegal. technology.timesonline.co.uk: "the average teenagers ipod contains around 800 illegally downloaded tracks". also, half of 14-24 year olds are happy to share the musical content of there hardrive with other users to allow illegal downloads. shutting down programs such as Limewire is very hard because the software itself is legal, but almost all it's content is. Limeire has a specific symbol next to Un copywrited music to show that the downloads are legal, however the vast majority of content comes from big bands such as mainstream and other smaller genres. Another area that links into file sharing is people downloading music that is not copyrighted and remixing it to create partially new music. The Good copy bad copy documentary follows a Brazilian artist who takes music from the Internet and remixes it to create new tracks, which are then played at parties with large audiences, raising awareness of his "identity". This is known as "sampling", when someone takes part of a track from the Internet and separate it from the track with some form of software,for example the drum beat and then loops the track and creates new music , Some people like the way that file sharing works even as artists, such as Aphex Twin, who states that the only reason he makes music is because he enjoys it and likes to share his creations with people, however he has to make them available to buy so that he can make a living, meaning that if he could live without money, he would always allow free downloading. He also makes a point of not being bothered about having fame or any of the like, but had to create an identity so that he could sell records and make a living from them.