The Music Online Age

The music industry is expanding all the time and in recent years it has branched out onto the internet. Since this revelation, music can be downloaded from file sharing websites, broadcasted on social networking sites and band websites, music videos can be viewed and uploaded onto Youtube, and also radio and TV can also be streamed live. On such social networking sites and band websites, band archive, gigs, blogs, merchandise, gallery and more can all be accessed by their audiences.

This revolution of the music industry has its advantages and its disadvantages. The advantages revolve around how music is being made of higher quality and more accessible to its audiences, and the inproved audience to institution communication and feedback is always becoming stronger as the online age grows. The music industry has been able to benefit from this online age financially as money can be made by companies such as Apple, who can merge with record labels and create and sell iTunes and hard/software and share the profits.

Disadvantages however come from such problems as piracy and copyright. Music is being illegally posted across the internet, denying the band and record labels any potential income, and with this online age expanding all the time, this is becoming harder to control. Companies such as Youtube are being targeted as a host websites where such copyrighted material could be posted, and this material is instantly removed or manipulated to solve this issue, at the expense of the quality and intent of the material.