NBC or Apple...Who's side are YOU on?!

Do you listen to your music from iTunes? Do your friends use iTunes to get their music? I am pretty sure they do! Who doesn’t nowadays?!

It’s no secret that the sales of CD’s have decreased dramatically because of the illegal downloading, but who’s at fault here? Definitely not Apple! You may ask why? well, there are systems being used here other than Apple. The way it works is that people download music from Limewire for example, and play the songs using iTunes and may transfer them to their iPods. Therefore, Apple isn't even making that much money from all of this. Also, why would all the blame be on Apple? All the other downloading systems should be at fault as well.

NBC should not be attacking Apple just because it has become such a successful and a well-known downloading system. If you ask me, I sense a little hatred and jealously here!
I believe that Zucker was trying to win people over by pretty much crying and complaining about how NBC is not getting much profit. But by stating in an article entitled NBC executive slams Apple for "killing music industry that “Apple had refused to pay NBC a cut of its iPod hardware sales” is just plain out ridiculous. Why would Apple have to pay NBC for their hardware sales? If anything, it would make more sense for NBC to be paying Apple to sell their shows on iTunes.

Mathew Ingram made a good point saying “But a good one might have been to ask Zucker how much money NBC has gotten over the years from TV manufacturers, who have also (arguably) sold a ton of hardware to people eager to watch major network content”. It seems to me that NBC shouldn't be crying for money.
Personally, I believe that if the systems worked together and then split up the profit, then all those lawsuits and attacks could be avoided. Yes, I realize that the music industry and the downloading systems are all competitive but is there a better way to solve this problem?

Although downloading music, shows, and files are illegal, people are still going to do it and I don't think there is any possible way for anyone to be punished for this so called crime.

Work Cited:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/mingram

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