In the last few years the rate of piracy continued to grow to an undesired rate which is why more and more artists from all over the world and covering all genres have suffered tremendous loses due to this negative online phenomenon. Artists have lost great amount of money because many people download music from sites, DC++ and other similar piracy sites. Police has not done much to close these websites because as they say – they have better things to do. They truly have not done a great deal because the largest torrent sites are still up with a few unimportant exceptions.
All these put together has lead to the conclusion that something must be down in order to reduce piracy because frankly put, piracy will never be eliminated. In the last 2-3 years more and more sites that allow you to download music legally have appeared. This is the greatest weapon again piracy because such sites have very low prices to songs, full albums, OSTs and other songs. The main idea behind this project is to convince people that by pirating an album, the revenue of the artist is 0, not to mention the lack of respect shown to the creator of an album.
With these websites, they are trying to convince people not to steal music (because piracy is stealing, no doubt about it) but to purchase songs for a fair amount of money, thus respecting the work of the artist, producer and so on. Such websites offer previews to all songs so that you know what you will get for your money. In order to encourage this method these websites offer a couple of songs free of charge once you set up an account. Another major advantage is that when a person purchases a full album he will get a discount for this, which will make the price even lower.
A quality online magazine store like this updates the database on a regular basis so that visitors will find the newest albums and singles. They usually cover all the charts from the most important countries and they try to cover all genres so that every visitor will find something suitable for his tastes. A very helpful monthly newsletter is sent to clients in order to inform them about the latest entries in the store with quick links.
Usually clients have the possibility to deposit money into their account (think of it as a bank) by credit cards, PayPal or any other secure method of payment. They offer bonuses to clients who deposit a large amount of money into their personal account in order to encourage them to purchase extra songs. Other bonuses usually include vouchers, gift cards, promotions and other similar methods.
As you can see, there are a lot of advantages when you purchase music through an online music store. Let's take for example a song that you heard on TV and you want to listen to it over and over again but your only solution so far was to purchase the entire album; now you have the possibility to purchase just the song that you like, not the entire album – thus you save a lot of money by not purchasing some songs that you will not listen to at all. Besides these advantages, if you buy music – you respect the artist, which is the most important aspect.
