Continuing on the legal front, practically every day we hear of another suit by the record companies or artists against an Internet company, accusing it of piracy. And every time I hear this, the only sound I hear is the voice of someone who just doesn’t get it. No matter what the music industry does, the copying and sharing of digital music files on the Web aren’t going to go away. In fact, they’re going to grow like mad as more of us get broadband connections in our homes. Tossing lawsuits in the paths of innovators like MP3.com and Napster might get headlines, but there will always be someone figuring out something new, whether or not the record companies like it. We’ve already seen the emergence of Gnutella, a file-sharing system that operates peer-to-peer, with no central server and therefore no big company to sue. Bands like Metallica—which is effectively calling more than 300,000 of its own fans and potential fans criminals—are going to need to “think different,” as Steve Jobs might say Yes, artists should be paid for their work, and I’m not endorsing piracy. But people have been making copies of songs for years—and this hasn’t hurt the industry. Even Sony, one of the largest record companies, builds stereo systems with built-in cassette players that can dub CDs.

Superstar musicians should look at this digital technology—and whatever comes after it—as the radio of the 21st century and as a promotional tool that they can use to their advantage. Unsigned bands should look at the emergence of companies like MP3.Com and Napster as a dream come
true. They make finding the music that fans like easier, even if it’s not a top seller. Believe me, if I really like your song, I’ll buy your album. Remember how the movie studios thought that cable TV and VCRs would stop people from going to movies?

More people go than ever. And I’ll bet this new technology will do the same for music. In fact, we could be in for a musical renaissance, as artists of all kinds realize that finding an audience and being heard are getting easier. Rather than fighting the technology, musicians and the record industry should be embracing it and inventing new ways to make money off of it.

When the word addiction is added to drug, it would surely be a bigger monster. Drug addiction Is defined as physical rather than psychological dependence upon an intoxicating substance. Physical dependence takes an estimate of six or more weeks and results from an alteration in the physiological state of the user. Besides developing tolerance, the body needs continual taking of the drug in order avoid an extremely painful syndrome called the withdrawal illness or abstinence syndrome. Withdrawal is defined as temporary physical illness that occurs when a person who is physically dependent on a drug no longer receives it.

Addiction is a measure of the degree to which the use of the drug penetrates the total life and activity of the user. Almost all drugs can produce psychological dependence. Physical dependence can only occur with depressant, such as alcohol, opium and related narcotics and sedative like barbiturates. The greatest risk of addition is on narcotics, next are alcohol and barbiturates.

Causes of Drug Use and Abuse;

Experts have exposed three areas that may influence use and
abuse of various drugs;1tese are the ff:
1. Psychological factors. The effect experienced in taking a drug is one of the many determining factors involved in the motivation toward the continual use.
2. Sociological factors. The socio and cultural factors are significant in promoting drug use and abuse. Young people who use or abuse drugs are doing in their own way what they see the adults do in their lives at home, in schools, or in films or TV Physicians and the pharmaceutical industry have also the responsibility for drug abuse. Subcultural groups – many young people seem to turn on to drugs as a means of coping with a world that hinders all their basic needs.

Drugs can be used as a way to rebel against what are perceived as the force of oppression. Other persons also use drugs as a way out of the system. In trying to find out ways, or a way out, they sometimes take the option of taking drugs, which they think can take them away from reality. Drugs can be used as a way into particular experiential or social groups. Many young people also tend to join a group, to a peer — group pressure -. the need to do “whatever everyone else” is doing.