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  • Mp 3 From The Cd
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    With the creation of new technologies and forums of media, industries must respond and adapt to the changes they create. The new technology of MP 3's challenges the music recording industry today. MP 3 stands for Motion Picture Expert Group Audio Layer 3 and, for those who do not know, is an audio file format that gives near CD quality sound compressed ten times that of the current standard. "MP 3 lists as one of the top five searched terms on Lycos and Hotbot (Kirchofer 1) and ranks up there wi...
  • Limp Bizkit And Other Bands
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    ... ic industry. No one is there to actually help you; all they want it to get their share. For a first time release of an album an artist may receive 25 cents per CD sold. That is twenty-five cents from a record that the consumer just paid $17.89 for. To break even on the starting album for a band has become virtually impossible, this is I have decided to follow in the footstep of my personal mentor. Bands such as The Dave Matthews Band are well known for their acceptance of file sharing. This ...
  • Download Clients And Media
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    Illegal Downloading "is" Stealing With the popularity of the Internet, sales for CDs, DVDs, Movies, and many other products have increased. Along with the increase of sales has brought forth an ever increasing problem of illegal media being downloaded. Programs such as Bittorent, Kazaa, and other direct-connect networking programs have allowed the transferring of such illegal media. Downloading song files from the Internet over a free peer to peer network is the moral equivalent of shoplifting m...
  • Music Tracks For A Dollar A Song
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    During the last seven years, there has been a market boom with the use of the Internet and e-commerce to manage business tycoon companies to the everyday mom and pop stores. Also, there has been a steady increase in the annual sales reported by big record labels and independent recording companies during the Internet explosion. Since technology was created to benefit mankind in facilitating our lives, computerized audio extraction programs (known as burning appz's) have been developed in order t...
  • Music Files
    474 words
    Computer Network Support A type of technology that will impact the future is downloading music from the Internet onto your hard drive. This will impact because almost everyone has a computer with the Internet and the ones that don't will probably end up getting one because they " re so useful. This form of getting music might make CD's and cassette tapes obsolete eventually. Along with the Internet, more and more computers are getting CD burning devices with them or if the computer doesn't have ...
  • Music From The Big Record Labels
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    The music recording industry is in trouble. For several years now, sales of new and popular music have steadily declined and show no sign of changing. The record companies are quick to blame the growing popularity of the Internet; music is being traded in a digital form online, often anonymously, with the use of file-sharing programs such as Morpheus, KaZaA, and Imesh, to name a few. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) succeeded in disbanding the pioneer Internet file-sharing pr...
  • Mp 3 Technology
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    MP 3 Subject: MP 3 One of the most exciting and innovative ways to get music these days is not in the mall and not at a huge mega electronic store, it's not even by a mail order CD club, it sits right on a desk and can allow you access to almost any kind of music available right in our home. Technology is changing the way we listen to music now downloading an MP 3 from the Internet is as easy if not a lot easier than going to the store and buying the CD. An MP 3 is a near CD quality digital reco...
  • Sublime As A Below Average Punk Band
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    Sublime was and still is one of the most inspirational bands that has ever existed. Eventhough Bradley Nowell is not still busting out new beats, the fans keep listening and the albums keep coming out. From Long Beach, California three friends got together and started to jam and make band. They started out just messing around. Bradley Nowell took the mic in his handa long with a guitar and a pen. Eric Wilson grabbed the bass guitar. Floyd Bud Gaughwith the hot drums. Sublime never thought from t...
  • Music Industry Needs Right
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    Is Napster illegal Tough question... Actually, the issue really isn't whether Napster is legal or not. The corporate suits and rich-bitch musicians would argue so, but it's just a cover for their fears. They " re basically afraid of Napster because its done something that hasn't happened in a while, but so desperately needed to happen. Napster has opened a door, a gigantic door, allowing the music industry to evolve drastically. Many people are insecure about this, but there's really no way arou...
  • Artists Concerning Mp 3 And Napster
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    CD Burners Who Should Be Held Responsible In todays world many people are using CD burners to copy Compact Disks (CDs). The question is who should be held responsible, the companies that manufacture these devices or the people that use the devices to copy CDs of friends and family members. No matter how you look at it, it is digital piracy, which is illegal and goes under the copyright laws of the individuals that produced the music that is being downloaded. I think that the companies that manuf...
  • Music File In The Mp 3
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    SYNOPSIS This paper takes a look at innovation drawing from the worldwide music industry. The music industry is currently facing a slump in its sales and dropping revenues worldwide. This paper traces the effects of evolution of disruptive technological innovations like Napster and subsequent technologies. Napster as a community file sharing peer-to-peer application defied the traditional physical music distribution system. The paper attempts to throw light on the subsequent fallout of the Napst...
  • Music Industry
    317 words
    Is downloading music stealing from the music industry? The music industry has prospered for many years in the past with few copyright problems. However, with the rise of the Internet in the late 1990's, the music industry began to face a new foe like no other. With the combination of software such as Napster and the MP 3 technology, users can now download songs with near CD quality at no cost. With all this new computer technology (Internet, MP 3, Napster), moral issues have been subject to deba...
  • Cd Players To School
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    Just a little bit of Music, What's the big deal? A student is walking down the hall at his school listening to one of his favorite songs in his brand new CD player and singing the lyrics in his mind. He turns to the left and he is face to face with the school principal who looks at him with that face that says "Oh boy, are we in BIG trouble?" . He looks fondly at his CD player maybe for the last time and he hands it to the principal, who says "NO CD PLAYERS ALLOWED!" . The boy looks sad as he wa...
  • Music Lyrics
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    Music has always been associated with adolescents in one way or another. Whether it's a parent telling their children to turn the stereo down or a group of kids gathered around a boom box in the street, music is something that seems to unite most young people today. The problem that concerns many parents, however, is the ideas that are portrayed in some lyrics and music videos. Most people don't stop to think about what effects the music they listen to might have on them. They don't think about ...
  • Cd From A Music Store
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    The New York Times article put a perfect perspective on how ridiculous and greedy record companies really are. What a perfect way to teach a lesson; sue a child for $750,000, and lesson learned. As far as I can remember, music downloads and file sharing has been going on for years, and even before The Napster era, so how convenient to make it illegal now, coincidentally when the music industry has been at an all time low. Of course the reason behind that may not be the fact that the past couple ...
  • Record Labels And Music Stores
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    Piracy has been a problem for the music industry on a number of levels. Ever since the Internet began saturating American culture, the number of pirated songs available has increasingly become a serious threat to the entire music industry, especially record labels and music stores. Advanced compression techniques (mp 3 format) have been distributed across the Internet that enable high quality music to be freely available to anyone on the Internet. The "mp 3" fad started in dorm rooms of college ...

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