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Hey everyone, Just want to remind everyone while it’s super easy to listen to each episode right here. You can also download the episodes by searching “Why Would You Make This?” on iTunes, the Podcast App on you iPhone or iPad, or wherever you get podcasts from. You can also head over to wwymt.libsyn.com and Right Click the “POD” symbol next to the episode’s title and hit “save link as”. Make…

Ever since 1999 when Napster, The first major illegal file-sharing site offered downloadable MP3 files to the masses, The fight against illegal downloading has been going on ever since and we as an industry are still no where near finding a solution for this issue. Downloading is defiantly still a growing problem, if you search the web for the particular single or album that you want, you will find hundreds and thousands of different illegal downloading websites to download your music, As one illegal piracy site gets shut down another two more seems to pop up. THERE’S JUST NO WINNING!

Well there is one organization which is trying to combat the continues fight against illegal downloading. The city London policing intellectual property crime unit  which started in September 2012 and The units main aims is to tackle serious and organized intellectual property crime.

As the industry suffers as the rate of album sales drop more and more each year, the intensive for the Record label and artist to make an album is plummeting into the ground and it seems to be the artist who is suffering the most out of it all, as the record label take in the money from the album sales and pays the artist in royalties from the which is a very small percent, and this amount is getting less and less by the minute! But without a record an artist is nothing.

As far as who’s doing the illegal downloading its us the so called ‘kids’.  71% of illegal downloads are between the ages of 16 and 24, which means Secondary school and university students are the majority to blame but we the ‘kids’ don’t necessarily have lots of money to spend on purchasing music in the first place. I’m not going to sit hear and say that I’ve never downloaded illegally because I would be lying, but I have also brought my fair share of albums over the years but that still doesn’t give me an excuse to download illegally.