Music Negatively Affecting The Music World

All through the internet there are plenty of different websites where illegal activity or downloading is taking place, one of the most common being music downloads. Studies have shown about 80% of music downloads that come from the internet are downloaded illegally. Is this cheap and easy way to get music negatively affecting the music world and all the writers who work hard to get their music out there?

Starting in the 1980’s, videotaping and CD’s were becoming very popular in the U.S. As the popularity of these items continued to grow, the technology improved making it possible to burn these discs into videos and others. It’s extremely easy to copy music to places other than the CD or the website you had to buy it from whether it was the

Due to all of the illegal music starting to be downloaded and copied, a bill called the Digital Millennium Act was

Taylor Swift’s decision to take all of her music and albums off of Spotify other than her song “Safe and Sound” from the soundtrack of the Hunger Games movie has caught everyone’s attention and caused a lot of controversy between fans and the music industry. Spotify is a music streaming service that people all around the world can use to download music so you can listen offline. It has thousands of songs from all different artists that you can share and download based on how much money you pay for your Spotify account, if you pay money for a better account, there is no limit to offline music and you can play the songs when you want to hear them rather than having to be in shuffle mode. CNN Entertainment has recently posted, “It's official: Taylor Swift's new album had the largest sales week since 2002, according to Billboard. “1989" sold almost 1.3 million copies in its debut week, said the data from Nielsen SoundScan.”. This has been a huge deal for Taylor and all of her fans that helped get her to where she is today. She is one of the most popular artists on Spotify right now and her recent hit “Shake it off” from the new album was ranked as number 1 on Spotify until she took down all her albums. As justification for taking down her music, she reported to the Wall Street Journal,