Interview 2

Demographic Information: 46, female, Music Photographer

Have you ever downloaded music illegally?

Yes, I have but only when the song wasn't available anywhere to buy. I never download with the purpose to have the music for free.

What do you think about downloading for free?

I completely disagree with downloading for free and see it as a form of theft. I depend on the music industry with my business so I understand the situation very well. Because the decline in record sales performers cut down in the expenses for photography.

What do you think enhances people to download music for free?

Because it's available. There are sources all over the Internet which provides these download facilities even though they gradually close them down, there will always new providers popping up.

Is it easy to download illegally?

Develop a piracy preventive solution so that CD's can no longer be downloaded and shared. A sort of a share-stop at the source so it becomes impossible to offer music for free or share music with others.

What could the music industry do to stop the public from downloading music illegally?

No if anything, music is one of the rare things that hasn't become unaffordable. It's still a luxury and not a necessity and one needs to but his music when he can afford it but I-Tunes for example offers you songs for £1. It can't get cheaper than that.

Do you think music is too expensive in the shops these days and people can’t no longer spent money on that, one of the reasons being the recession?

Yes I believe the future is in online sales of music. HMV and others could invest the money put in shops better in offering a wide and safe platform to buy music online.

Do you think shops like HMV should close down and just sell their music online, seeing the majority of people get there music from the internet?

Fear it's a crime we will never be able to solve. There will always be illegal site offering music for free. But if all record companies, music stores and others would throw them into online sales of music, they could dominate the market.

Isn’t the public scared of catching virus’s when downloading?

When you download music from piracy sites you know it is not safe but people don't Carr and accept that it's part of the deal to be able to get music for free. It's become globally accepted and people seem to prefer to spend their money on virus killers than on music.

interview 1

Demographic Information: 17, Female, Student who is in a band. 

Have you ever downloaded music illegally?

I download music illegally because of the price of buying music from ITunes, I remember the price of each individual song being £0.79 and last time I checked they were asking for £0.90 which I find to be highly overpriced if I could get each song for free. I have calculated how much I would have spent id I bought all of my songs legally. If each of them is £0.90 and I have around 2,000 songs then I would have spent £1,800 which I don’t have. That is extortionate. It’s extremely easy to get hold of illegal songs so it’s difficult to resist the temptation.

What do you think about downloading for free?

I think it’s wrong but I do it anyway because I don’t want to pay £0.90 for each song. I wouldn’t download illegally if the songs were cheaper.

What do you think enhances people to download music for free?

Well because you have instant access to music online, people are less likely to buy albums and singles in the shops because it takes longer and is more effort. It doesn’t cost anything and there is very little effort.

Is it easy to download illegally?

Very easy using websites like Limewire.

What could the music industry do to stop the public from downloading music illegally?

If the cost of each song was considerable lower.

Do you think music is too expensive in the shops these days and people can’t no longer spent money on that, one of the reasons being the recession?

I don’t think it’s because of the price, but mostly because people will just upload the CD to their computer for their IPOD/mp3 anyway so the disc becomes a waste of space.

Do you think shops like HMV should close down and just sell their music online, seeing the majority of people get there music from the internet?

No because I still buy hard copies of particular albums, and some people still use CD players.

Isn’t the public scared of catching virus’s when downloading?

Yes but it doesn’t stop them because they are getting the music for free and rarely get a virus. Most people don’t mind taking the risk.

Survey

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Sources Table

29.09.10
Wrote questions and sub questions, found links about the subject I'm researching.
http://watch-movies.net.in/ - http://www.watchmovieslinksonline.com/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media - http://www.answers.com/topic/streaming-video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgD90kgFnw - http://hubpages.com/hub/legal-download-services - http://www.bized.co.uk/current/research/2003_04/011203.htm
Googled internet streaming and what the future holds for it. I then went on different websites to see the different ways of using internet streaming.

01.10.10
I checked the intuit websites, I also listened to a podcast by Stephen Fry talking about music downloading.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/communication - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/10/murdoch-illegal-downloading-stealing-handbag - http://stuff.tv/news/Stephen-Fry-wows-Apple-iTunes-festival-with-controversial-copyright-talk/12749/ - http://www.nme.com/news/duffy/38499
I researched the topic in the new media folder, but I didn't find anything on illegal downloading of music. Instead I googled to research more information and sources on illegal downloading.
I personally think that the podcast by Stephen Fry is a very good source as it gives you a lot of infromation and insight about illegal downloading. I also think the link to the guardian website is a bad source. As it gives you little information.

06.10.10
While following the lesson I wrote on my blog to keep track of what was happening in the lesson and to keep all of the information. I then looked for more sources on the internet and in books from the library.
http://www.riaa.com/faq/php - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy - http://drownedinsound.com/news/4136081vcv - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/72402434.stm - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents.Yourchildshealthandsafety/Internetsafety/DG_071136
I typed in illegal downloading into the search engine google. I went on various links which gave me the statistics for the illegal downloading of the UK.
I think that the riaa website was a very good source because of the fact that it gave me plenty of infomation and I would say that this website was reliable. I think the guardian is a bad source as it gives a lot information but none of the information is that useful.

08.10.10
Today I did a lot more research on illegal downloading to improve my sources table.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/illegal-downloading-what-happens-if-youre-caught-17736013.html - http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_download - http://www.copynot.com/ - http://www.besttechie.net/2008/04/14/illegal-music-downloading-look-at-the-facts/ - A book by Sexton, Jamie called Digital music: Production, Distribution and Consumption.
I think the independent website is a good sources as it gave me lots of information and it's pretty reliable. I also think the besttechie website and the book by Jamie Sexton are both good and reliable sources.

Audience Research

(aim – to find out about downloading and streaming habits among a particular age group) 


The bad points from this questionaire are: 
- On the questionnaire they ask you to write your name. This is bad because a questionnaire is to find out what the public thinks, not who the public is. 
- The questionnaire also asks if you feel guilty when downloading music. This is not a good question because they ask too much personal information, questionnaire's are usually just for finding out facts of the public. 
- The questionnaire also asks you where you store your downloaded music. I would consider this to be a bad question as the people asking the question wouldn't gain anything by knowing this. 


I think this questionnaire could improve if it has more questions on there which could be more valuable to the researchers, but as they have questions which aren't very usefull, I think this questionnaire isn't a good one.

Reliable Websites

What makes websites reliable? Where do they get their information from? 
Websites such as www.wikipedia.com aren't very reliable as the information isn't always true and as the public can re-type and add to the information that was already on the website. 
Websites such as www.bbc.co.uk are reliable websites as they have reporters going out and getting the actual story, they also check there stories before they post them to their website. The bbc has a duty to the public to be fair and balanced.

Who? (Who updates the website with the right and relevant information)
What? (What exactly they are saying)
Why? (Why are they saying this, what made them say this)
Where? (This information can be found on websites such as Forums, blogs and academic websites)

Examples of research

• He has given background information on dubstep to research it more. 

• He has given examples and shown what he did by 'screen printing' the main highlights. 

•  Also he has given his own opinion on the research. 

• Broad questions - Where your going to look - How you looked at the links - Going into depth with the research. 

• To make it easier, ask yourself questions about the research you are going to do and questions about how you are going to look at it. 
• He analysis how people get to the website to see what there interests are.