Piracy is the biggest ghost for the recording industry worldwide. This has been going on since time immemorial. For large in 70-80s may still experience how until the mid-80s, we can be sure all tapes western songs circulated by record companies in the country is pirated results.
For local tracks its own fate is no better, for example, Bimbo, which until now could not own the copyright to most of his songs because of back and forth losing in court against the record company.
The presence of the digital era increasingly memperbuas circulation of pirated music is. Pioneered by Napster, which is one of the founder, played by Justin Timberlake in the film Social Network, exchange services and start rampant illegal downloading songs.
Although Napster was eventually shut down by American courts, but its presence managed to destroy the recording industry trade system that really is a cartel consisting of a handful of giant record companies.
In Indonesia alone, pirated songs in mp3 or audio cd format so easy to get from start to overhang the curb to the shopping centers of the cool air-conditioned.
Actually, the recording industry itself is not without a fight. Seeing the potential of the digital music market is so large, introduced the method of DRM (Digital Right Management) which will protect all tracks released in digital form, so it can not be copied or transferred.
Only DRM technology proved difficult for most buyers song, because it limits the portability of legal songs that they have, because it can only be played on certain devices that have the identifier of the DRM system.
In effect, people become lazy and buy DRM songs were re-turned to pirated songs, and it causes a number of legal music download service providers were DRM out of business within a short time, including in this country.
Hence also, the iTunes online music store as the world's largest, since 2007 and have decided to no longer use DRM in any tracks they sell.
With its so massive illegal distribution of digital music is, frankly I doubt the effectiveness of Menkominfo plan to close access to the sites of illegal music provider. Because as well as pornography, will always appear new sites that provide access to goods that are not illegal it may be entirely eradicated, especially if their locations abroad.
Combating piracy is a mammoth job that was almost impossible, may measure something like the fight against drugs which have a networking business that has tremendous power behind it. Requires approaches from a number of sectors, which was only the state can do that.
Below is an explanation from a practitioner telematics
The author, James Mochamad Falahuddin a practitioner telematics
iCloud
Perhaps realizing that stopping the circulation of pirated music is impossible, as the owner of Apple Inc. iTunes choose to offer 'legalized' tracks that are not purchased through iTunes, which is very large is pirated songs, through service iCloud those already introduced in Apple's Developer World Congress last month and will be released this autumn.
Actually the main service of iCloud is a storage service that organized music library through iTunes application stored in millions of Desktop PCs / Notebook iTunes users, the means of storage in the cloud of his Apple. Thus the content library of songs contained in the iTunes version of its Desktop PC, via iCloud automatically synchronized with iTunes dynamically linked libraries that they have in other devices such as iPod, iPhone or iPad.
But unlike music cloud storage service offered by Amazon or Google, the synchronization process to iCloud earlier, as well as the detection of whether the songs will be available in your iTunes library songs purchased we are officially in the iTunes store, or derived from other sources, such as the rip from CDs or pirated results.
Well, for songs not purchased from iTunes, but there is a counterpart in the iTunes catalog, Apple's offer to 'swap' the song of rip / pirated by the official version with better quality are available on iTunes, just by paying a subscription USD 24, 99/year.
It is this process that I call the 'legalization' earlier. It seems that Apple's approach is quite acceptable by the recording industry, as evidenced by the major labels are willing to work with Apple to iCloud this business model.
Maybe they think rather than not at all get money from pirated songs, although a little mild dapet. But of course its huge potential given the owner of the desktop version of the iTunes application number tens of millions. Of course with expectations, after a collection of songs pirated 'legalized', the future owner of the song will be officially purchased via iTunes.
I think what was done by Steve Jobs, with his iCloud this is a brilliant, like everything else he does. And if successful, this cloud computing-based services this may be a savior for the music industry from piracy crimes. But unfortunately, the service purchase music on iTunes to date has not been available to consumers in Indonesia.
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