A Piracy in Musical Audio-Visual Production and Distribution: A Forensic Engineering Calculus Approach for the Economics of Deregulation

The last few years has been recorded an uncontrollable increase in music distribution over the Internet.This phenomenon is common in many countries and therefore involves many issues such as: Methods for distribution,music production organization, copyright issues, file and media formatting at the final stage for the audiovisualproducts to be circulated. The revolution in music prototyping (especially the MP3 music format and the MPEG-4combined audio-video type for archiving) urged many people to turn to the Internet for free and easy-to-find music.Music files can be downloaded easily from the Internet anywhere in the world and be burned into a CD or DVD ortransferred to a friend via USB sticks. Music is also widely available as streams in Internet through various servicessuch as MySpace, YouTube and iTunes. Internet also is full of questions on what is legal and what is not, because thephenomenon of massive file exchange is hard to supervise and the laws valid in assorted countries diverge.Mathematical modelling of illegal distribution can be used for providing forensic services in an attempt to distinguishfacts from speculation, evidence from erosive communication and trafficking. The technical, social, financial and legalparameters of this battlefield are examined in this paper under the prism of networked economies