Friday, 2 March 2007

Broadcast yourself. This is the tagline for www.youtube.com. This is the perfect example of the positive results of online music. This website allows anyone to upload footage of themselves onto the website, therefore allowing bands/musicians/singers to get their music out to a worldwide audience without getting a record deal. This is clearly a good thing. This technology is not always a good thing though. Recently it was advertised that every single Red hot chili peppers music video is available to view on Youtube through fans uploading the videos illegally onto the Internet. This is a good thing for the public. It is not a good thing, however, for the artists themselves and their record company who are loosing profit as a result. Should this technology be banned or is this actually helping the artists to get their music to a wider audience and therefore increasing record sales.

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