With the new boom in internet technology, with such websites as YouTube and MySpace which help new or small artists promote their music it can be argued that there are certainly some benefits to file sharing. As new artists emerge on the music scene, they are usually limited to the air play they get. With websites such as YouTube, if one internet junkie finds a song by a new artist interesting he or she uses that in their videos. With millions of views cumulating on YouTube everyday, the music by these new artists reaches listeners worldwide. A way that illegal file sharing gives potential benefits to music composers/artists is by online forums. Many online forums, although not located in the USA, have download links to music which is copyrighted. Nowadays illegal file sharing is not just limited to peer to peer file sharing. Since there are many web hosting companies that provide free file hosting online, it puts less pressure on these file sharing forums for providing bandwidth and storage space. So considering the boom of blogging and forums posting these past couple years, many people have been guided to these types of forums where they can download music for free without sharing any files of their own. These types of websites are open to both young and old, they way these websites benefit music sales is mostly concentrated on the old audience. Because the more mature audience believes in the ways of try before you buy, they often listen to their favorite artists and then go and purchase their CDs. Although sometimes they are still driven to illegal file sharing because of the fact that sometimes it is less time and energy consuming then to go to a local store and buying the music.
