The Recording Industry Association of America, also known as the RIAA, has said that music piracy is "a real, ongoing and evolving challenge." It is very easy for a person to purchase a download of an artist's music and simply upload it to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing sites, such as The Pirate Bay, and allow other users to illegally download the song or album free. This has become a huge problem globally. In America, music piracy causes losses of 12.5 billion dollars in the American economy, which translates into a loss of 2 billion dollars in wages for American workers and, above all, in the loss of jobs up to 70,000 people. Burning a copy of a CD and giving it to another person also falls under the scope of music piracy. According to the book “Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929” by Barry Kernfeld, it is stated that even photocopying printed music is still a violation of copyright. It is also stated that in 1897 musical compositions required permission from the copyright holder to perform the chosen song in public. This proves that piracy affects all music