World Music Culture

By mark Marshall

 At one time consumer attitude towards downloading songs from the internet was very mixed. Their are those that believe that the rule of the physical world have no place in a virtual enviroment. There were others, and thankfully in considerably larger numbers, who took the long term view that if the public were allowed music for free, in the long term, it would signal the end of the music industry as if artists could not earn money from their talents, they would eventually become financially unable to write and perform. Not only that the record companies who financed them would also go to the wall.

We all get the point that copying music with out permission is illegal but when i was a kid we used to tape the top 40 or borrow a friend album and make a copy do we really care where our music come from?. Eventually the international body that rules internet right had no option but to intervene, and make the whole issue of downloading music a clear cut issue, The rules of the game now is that

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