{"pk":60205,"title":"Next-Generation Piracy: How Search Engines Will Destroy the Music Business","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This Comment seeks to address the problems that search engines\n \ncreate for the music business in our ever-evolving digital society.\n \nPiracy costs are now measured in billions, encompassing lost revenue\n \nand job cutbacks. As the world becomes even more dependent on the\n \nInternet for entertainment, piracy can only get worse. Although in the\n \nUnited States piracy has been addressed with respect to P2P file\n \nsharing services, record companies are coming upon an era where\n \nsearch engines will enable effective, quick, and simple piracy. This\n \nevolution has already taken hold in China, a country where 99 percent\n \nof music files are estimated to be pirated, and copyright infringement is\n \nas easy as typing a song name into a specialized search engine. The\n \nproblem is slowly starting to be felt domestically. Although Supreme\n \nCourt precedents have addressed the issues of P2P file sharing,\n \ncurrent statutes and decisions are unequipped to deal with the next\n \ngeneration of search engines.\n \n \nThis Comment argues that although search engines might be held\n \nresponsible for some of their contributions to piracy through the court\n \nsystem, ultimately, the fundamentals which make up the business model\n \nof music companies must change. Statutes, court decisions, and\n \nsociety are comfortable allowing an open and unrestricted Internet,\n \nensuring that search engine capabilities will not be curbed As the\n \ndigital age progresses, recording companies will bleed money until\n \nthey are faced with a choice: adapt or die. This Comment proposes\n \nthat to survive, recording companies must delve deep into alternative\n \nrevenue streams, leaving behind their pursuit of pure music in the\n \nprocess. Ultimately, pure music as an art form will vanish.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Comments","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54x0t5nj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"Chiara","last_name":"Civilini","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2015-04-25T18:03:10+02:00","date_accepted":"2015-04-25T18:03:10+02:00","date_published":"2012-01-01T01:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_elr/article/60205/galley/46164/download/"}]}