![]() It was much easier for people with little to no knowledge of technology and old piracy methods to gather media files. Users of the web began adding media files to the internet, and prior potential risks and difficulties to pirating music, such as the physicality of the process, were eliminated. With the invention of newer technology that allowed for the piracy process to become less complicated, it became much more common. The invention of the Internet and digital media created music piracy in its modern form. The film I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945), commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, is based on the events of the day. The gangs would often buy a copy of the music at full price, copy it, and resell it, often at half the price of the original. O'Connor Bill was passed by the British Parliament, following many of the popular music writers at the time dying in poverty due to extensive piracy by gangs during the piracy crisis of sheet music in the early 20th century. ![]() In August 1906 The Copyright Law for Music Act 1906, known as the T.P.
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