Music piracy has been a huge challenge facing the record industry in the digital age. The ethical dilemma of paying for music and intellectual property artists work hard to create has been obliterated by online music piracy. From the late 1990s to mid 2000s, applications like Napster and Torrent sites ruled the online music domain. Since the mid 2000s, companies have been scrambling to try and bridge the gap between piracy, and paying for music online. Today, a far more ethical alternative has been sweeping the inter-web landscape: social music applications give users on-demand streaming access to practically all of the worlds recorded music, without any legal risks to the user. [Read more...]