Since the year 2000 the Internet has started to host some of the most successful multimedia companies in our time, an examples being iTunes. When you download a song from iTunes or any other site like this that content has something call DRM or digital rights management, for iTunes this means that you can't play it on more that 5 computers and you cant play it on anything but iTunes and iPod. Now you may be thinking that this is fine after all musicians should own their music, but this also means that if you suddenly buy say a 64bit computer where iTunes doesn't work you will not be able to play your music.
The Internet was made so that anybody could share content with the world, this is where DRM becomes a problem, it undermines the ability for people to share content like music. This may sound like sharing content is pirating but say one of your friends really loves a song and you want to listen to the whole song and see if you like it, then if you do you go and buy and album of that person.
My final opinion is that this issue is still evolving and with time we will see if the Internets content is owned by the people or by the business.
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