Copy Righting

Copy right issues have been a huge problem for the music industry for a very long time. This has been a ongoing issue for today's artist who like to sample old artist songs. New artist then try to make a hit for today's hot music with past hits. This is a popular way to make new music for any artist out there. Some do it because they've always wanted to use their favorite song and recreate it in their own way. However, on the other side of the argument, some people who oppose that believe most of today's artist aren't original and just like to copy one another. They think that they don't want to come up with their own music and just ride off of someone else's hard work. So as the new age of receiving content has shifted the way we purchase music, this has caused problems for the artist to get their royalties.
We are in a world where everyone wants free, free and more free content. People will do whatever it takes to get new music as well as old. The most common way people will do this is illegally downloading songs. Some will get the music from a website and then share it for everyone around the world who would like to access to it for free. I'm not going to lie, but when I was younger I would use LimeWire more so than Napster.  This was a way to get free access to movies the website would illegally post. There were also underground rap artist who weren't mainstream that were on these websites. When you are young, you don't understand why it is important to support your favorite artist, all you care about is the content and it being free usually. There were many reports of people getting charged of the illegal downloads and the fines being hefty. On the flip side of this,  the streaming services are not having to pay the artist their true share after every stream or view their songs get. Every website that has the most viewed videos has the worse payout of every streaming service. This famously known service is Youtube. This has brought some concern to people in the music realm. This company receives a very large sum of money for every view and play on their website and videos. On the other hand they are not giving back anything to the artist themselves. This is the evolution of digital sharing. People recognize that there is a huge amount of money to be made. The issue is how are they going to come to a resolution of proper distribution. The big man (corporations) always find a way to screw over the small man (artist). They then leave the crumbs to your consumers. Consumers will then find anyway to get the content they want for free if it doesn't seem like it is a great purchase for them.

What do you think? How will we solve this problem? Is there a way to resolve this problem? How do you think that this will affect artist in the future?