It will not be easy to change broadband users habits say experts

An expert in the record industry has recently advised that the recent threats that have been issued by the government are unlike to put off broadband users that currently use the internet to download free music.

Over the next few years there will be a big change in the internet is used according to a spokesman for the NME, which was originally known as the New Musical Express and is a weekly UK-based music magazine.

The increased focus on tempting users to download music legally by offering the many features that buying a CD would normally come with is one of the many innovations that will be bought in by the music industry said the news editor for the NME, Paul Stokes.

Although it will be hard to pull many users away from illegally download music in the way they currently do he advised that companies like Apple have already started offering a range of extras including videos and album sleeve notes in order to get users to legitimately download their tunes.

Mr Stokes went on to say “There’s a generation that’s come through now of music fans who don’t necessarily see why you pay for recorded music – you pay to go and see bands live.”

Users who currently download music through illegal file-sharing site are unlikely to be put off by the current threats of disconnection, which are aimed directly at these kinds of users, that are being proposed by the government he went on to suggest.

Finally he advised “Changing the broad spirit of that generation … is going to take more than just promising cheaper content and different things with it.”

It was recently confirmed by Peter Mandelson, the secretary of state for business innovation and skills that the government would go ahead with its plans to disconnect users after sending them two warning letters.