The music industry has definitely been an ever evolving one, and we have definitely come a long way from cassettes to “the more recent old days, when it happened on Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire, BitTorrent, and even YouTube”. But a recent controversy has arisen with the piracy of music, no longer can music be “shared” through an online source such as napster, now to legitimately own music you must purchase a digital version of a track . Now the new generation of website from where we can procure music is Amazon and iTunes. Itunes has definitely taken the lead in the online music distribution industry, and in doing so they have also developed a way to protect the rights of the music they are selling, they have used.

Is DMR really about protecting from piracy or is it about creating a monopoly for iTunes???
At the end of the day, new protective software can be developed, but the users will at the end find new ways to get music without paying the rights to it, it’s an ongoing cycle that will continue occurring. And the giants of the online music industry will keep growing regardless, as well as the artists themselves; people will continue purchasing merchandise related to them, especially concert tickets.
What do you think? Is FairPlay unfair or a necessary tool to control piracy?