By not making service providers held liable for their customers' crimes, webmasters know that they will endure penalties for breaking the law. Video piracy is one problem that the new laws tries to alleviate. The practice of downloading video clips and posting them on the Internet for others to download is very popular. The music industry is very interested in the new copyright laws. They have been in the forefront of many of the early lawsuits dealing with copyright laws.
Record companies are worried about the growing popularity in the practice of downloading music.
Many music buyers like to download a single song as a sample of a new album. This is done to see if it is worth their while to purchase the the whole album. The M3 technology is something that really concerns the music industry. The companies fear that it may end up costing them thousands of dollars in revenue. An interesting thing about the Internet radio stations, or Webcasters, is that they must pay royalties to to the record company from which their playlists come from.