A quarter of Internet Users Hijacked the Music

Despite the popularity and availability of legal digital music services, such as Spotify and iTunes experience growth, piracy is still rife. Citing the Telegraph website, 28 percent of global Internet users use pirated music sites every month.
This report is based on data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), or the Recording Industry Federation. IFPI reported a large number of people who still access music illegally as, "an investment which endanger the (industry) music" and encouraged to "develop the market to provide a legal music service".
The report cites the French government's anti-piracy laws, the laws 'Hadopi'. By closing a number of file sharing sites menggunakam this law, then assessed will increase music sales with legal services such as iTunes or Spotify.
The same system has also been introduced by the British government, by using the Digital Economy Act last year. However, the action has not been practiced.
The report also found that despite the popularity of illegal downloading continues, 32 percent of global record label revenue comes from digital sales, which is the highest in the history of the music industry. Furthermore, digital music revenue rose 8 percent to reach U.S. $ 5.2 billion.
"Upon entering the year 2012, there is good reason to be optimistic in the world of digital music. Legal services with the expansion of the audience have been across the world and consumer choice that has been revolutionized. While momentum is building a war against piracy such as government and a growing circle of intermediaries in the industry, "says CEO IFTI, Frances Moore.
However, IFTI ask the record industry was not easily satisfied with the high sales in the digital music industry. Therefore, 2012 was expected to be a successful sustainability of the momentum of digital music industry.
"We need legislation from the government with a coordinated measures relating to piracy effectively in all forms. We also need more cooperation from the online intermediaries such as search engines and advertising to support legislation digital music business," said Moore.
According to data from IFPI, Bruno Mars single, "Just the Way You Are" is the highest selling single in 2011, which sold more than 12.5 million copies. While in general, sales of digital singles in the UK, up 10 percent this year.

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Solar Flare Arrives on Earth

A giant flames burst from the Sun on January 19, 2012. Bursts of plasma waves it throws a light trigger beautiful auroras or the northern sky in the region when the particle is reached with the upper atmosphere of Earth.

According to observers of outer space, the Sun's eruptions - also known as a coronal mass ejection - occurred around 16:00 GMT on Thursday. The particles of the explosion hurled toward Earth at speeds of about 1,000 kilometers per second.

"When hit, a large geomagnetic storms arise, and when the particle cloud arrived, visible aurora in the high to middle latitudes," said aerospace analyst, quoted from Spaceweather, January 22, 2012.

A number of space telescopes including the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) NASA's managed to make photo and video recording the eruption of the Sun.

According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, the Sun's eruptions came from a group of active sun spots called Region 1401. And the eruption this time, not just a tongue of fire that appears. One other hotspot diesel, which is called by Region 1402, also threw flames.

Of scale created by astronomers to determine the strength of the eruption, the flame that came out last Thursday itself categorized as M2-class sun storm, the storm the sun is strong. M-class solar storm itself is a strong storm, but only came out to medium range.

Posisnya were among the flames, the C-class and weaker X-class solar storms that could bring a very strong threat to satellites and astronauts are in orbit the Sun. The eruption of X-class storms can also disrupt and destroy communications infrastructure if it just leads to Earth.

The sun itself now in the middle of the active phase in the cycle 11 yearly. According to NASA, solar storm cycle that is currently happening, called the Solar Cylce 24, is likely to peak in 2013.

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Following MegaUpload, FileSonic will be closed?

File sharing services may be one by one after MegaUpload. After MegaUploadclosed last week, now turn FileSonic, one of the other popular file sharing service,has shut down their file sharing functions.

"This service can only be used to upload and retrieve files you have uploaded in person," according to an announcement posted on the home page of the site.

FileSonic also suspend reward programs that reward for the users when theydownload their files. Some users mentioned, the digital locker website was startedto delete some files even the user account.

Quoted from Cnet, on Monday (1/23/2012), FileSonic not just another site that runs the world cyberlocker. The site is also located in the top 10 popular file sharing siteon the internet, with a quarter of a billion page views per month.

However FileSonic itself does not give an official explanation of the change. Butsome users suspect, MegaUpload closure has created the atmosphere of fearamong the community of file sharing services.

United States Department of Justice and the FBI shut MegaUpload assessedbecause many contain illegal content. This is the fruit of the demands of the industrywho feel aggrieved by the existence of the file sharing sites.

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China Still Buy Iranian Oil

Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, emphasized his country still imports oil from Iran. This attitude is the opposite of the United States and some Western countriesand Japan, the embargo on oil supplies from Iran after appearing sanctions from Washington.

According to the Reuters news agency, Wen made ​​the statement during a visit tothree countries to end the Middle East, January 19, 2011. During Wen's six-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - which is also a majorsupplier of oil from the Middle East.

Wen said that China, like the Western countries, basically helped oppose Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons technology. That which has been the basis forWestern countries - and also the UN Security Council - in economic and tradesanctions on Iran.

In recent years this issue continues to drag on because Iran had insisted on the right to develop nuclear power. However, Iran dismissed concerns that nucleartechnology will be used as a weapon, but only to meet energy needs.

"China remained opposed to the development and possession of nuclear weaponsin Iran," Wen said in Doha, Qatar. However, China does not want to come along withapplying an embargo on oil supplies from Iran.

"I also want to emphasize that China's oil trade with Iran continues normally," saidWen, when asked by reporters about Beijing's stance on the U.S. and Europe stepin to block oil exports and financial flows out of the country of Iran

"Trading remains valid should be protected, if not the world economic order will fallinto chaos," said Wen. Statement number three leader in China was published in the Chinese Foreign Ministry website.

  

China's economy in the last two decades is growing very rapidly. Consequently,China needs a lot of energy resources to meet domestic consumption andproduction.

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