Illegal downloading on the Internet is becoming more and more common. Some people suggest that this is having an adverse impact on music artists and on the music industry. Others suggest that it have little impact or influences on artists. Personally, I agree that this could cause losses in the music industry.52 It is clear that profit from the on sale albums and digital albums on the music platform is the largest part of artist income. These profit would be divide into different proportion and give to the entertainment company and the artist. However, the illegal Internet downloads could decrease the profit especially the profit from digital album because people tend to use music platforms currently, and they would tend to use the free way to listen to music although they know it is an illegal way. Furthermore, not only artists would be affected by the illegal downloads but also the whole music industry. The large-scale illegal downloading could discourage artists and they would no...