Many products from the mass media are legally protected from freely published to the producers, as long as they have the copyright. But once all these media products are uploaded online, everyone can access to these products.
Music is a very good illustration to explain. In the Asian cyber world, there is a program, Foxy, users can download for free, which allows users to connect to those possess the same program and share the music together. For an example, if someone want to look for the songs of Michael Jackson, he/she just has to type his name into the searching box, for those users who are at online status have any song of Michael Jackson, all the songs will be shown on the screen. They can choose and download for whatever they have. Normally, it can generate up to thousand results and even more. Not only the music can be found, but also the video, TV show and movie can be saved into the computer.
As a result, an original copy of a song now can be owned and shared by thousand and thousand people in the cyber world. The industry of movie and music production is in crisis, less and less people are not willing to pay to watch a movie to a theater or to buy a DVD, they are not willing to buy a new CD album for one to two songs they heard from radio channels as they believe that they can download it from the Internet later.
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