Hegemonic Copyright Regime Analysis

The article “The hegemonic copyright regime vs the sharing copyright users of music?” by Bart Cammaerts, expands on the idea of music becoming easily accessible through via internet, which creates conflict for music producers and the industry. This conflict arises due to the lack of funds these companies receive from consumers downloading songs online for free. Ownership within the music industry is gradually decreasing, and new copyright strategies must be found or businesses and artists within the music industry will continue to lose funding and become critical. The article examines several ideals towards the current piracy issue that is living today and questions the reader how we should handle the regulation of digital content.
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What used to be tangible and sharable (on a more personal base) has become anonymous and creates “weak-ties” within the process of sharing. What I mean by the ties are becoming weaker between music sharing; individuals had to personally create each CD, or tape and physically hand over the music to whoever they created it for. Music sharing was a way to strengthen relationships, start new relationships or was used as random acts of kindness for certain people. Now people may find whatever song they want within a free file sharing website such as “Hotfile.com” or “megafileupload.com”. Fundamentally, social ties that were once held before digital music, are presently weak due to the lack of personalization and socialization within peers who share …show more content…
Cammaerts exemplifies his idea on how content industries may start to monitor our activities while using the internet, in order to track our ‘misuses’ and to take action when there are repetitive ‘misuses’. I disagree that the government should take the ‘un-private’ incentive to alleviating this continuing conflict on piracy. Although, I agree with Cammaerts last statement, the institution must create ways to satisfy the public and the artist. For the specific reason, sharing mass amounts of content through ‘file-sharing’ websites and blogs, contributes to modern day culture and ideals. If our online content is strongly monitored, individuals will have to begin purchasing their content. In my opinion, I feel that streaming music and videos will solve piracy concerns. Music database programs such as iTunes may turn to streaming rather than purchasing individual songs. I anticipate a monthly fee from Apple, in order to constantly stream their music, but I am certain it will be the best option for the time