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  • Music In Mp 3 Format
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    Mp 3 argument The Next Revolution in Music Technology: Make or Break? Throughout life I have encountered several different mediums of music including eight-track recordings, vinyl records, cassette tapes, mini-discs, digital audio tapes (DAT), and compact discs. I have always considered the CD to be the greatest technological advancement (as a medium of music) of my generation because it was the first digital audio format made readily available to the general public. Because of the CD, people we...
  • Mp 3's From The Internet
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    MP 3's: Friend or Foe MP 3's, a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us Some say they are good while others argue that they are not just bad, but horrific to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3's are used widely by teenagers on their home computer, usually illegally and are constantly being threatened by the producer of the music. Billions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology mainly because no one is buyi...
  • Free Music On Your Favorite Radio Station
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    rfghBEFORE 1997, MP 3 WAS A LITTLE known technology that computer geeks used to download compressed music files free off the Internet. But Internet time moves fast-so fast that by 1998 large pockets of the general public and the mainstream media were talking about MP 3, not to mention taking advantage of it. At first the music moguls were afraid of MP 3. Protecting copyrights was hard enough without easily accessible Web files enabling any old joes to access-and copy-their favorite music. But wh...
  • Charitable Endeavors Elvis Presley
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    Anailys Acosta Mul 2380 Prof. Abbot Elvis Presley On January 8, 1935, in Tupelo Mississippi, Elvis Aaron Presley was born to a lovely couple by the name of Vernon and Gladys Presley. He brought so much joy into the family. By the age of 18, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1948, and he graduated from Humes High School there in 1953. The pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the blac...
  • Digital Audio Recordings Of Copyrighted Music
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    The research compiled here will attempt primarily to answer the following questions for the layman: 'What is digital music distribution and why is it significant?" 'Who are the stakeholders in digital music distribution?" and 'What are the primary drivers of the imminent changes in the music industry?" Formal reference material on this subject is in short supply. As a result, opinions, facts, and statements made by stakeholders and industry observers have been gathered from various articles publ...
  • Musical Recordings
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    While the censorship of art is not a new phenomenon, recent years have witnessed renewed and intensified attempts to control popular culture. In particular, rap and rock music have come under increasing attack from various sides representing the entire left and right political spectrum, purportedly for their explicit sexual and violent lyrical contents. In this paper is investigated which moral codes underlie these claims against popular music, how social movements mobilize actions around these ...
  • Sound And Music Files
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    Music has for a long time been a big part of American traditions and pastimes. But many don't really know what goes into the making of the songs, besides the lyrics and the music. Most of the public puts little thought into how a Cd is really produced, shipped, and presented to the public, or about the costs of producing a record compared to the profits made by corporations. Technology also plays an important role in music, and makes it easily available to everyone around the world. But does it ...
  • Newer Records
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    The DJ Booth Even while standing inside a DJ booth can be loud and obnoxious, the excitement of playing music and controlling a huge crowd sends and unexplainable feeling through your body. When I first step into a DJ booth at Club Centers, located in the heart of Rochester, New York, my nerves start going crazy and butterflies hit my stomach so fast it feels like I have to puke. Just the sight of three turntables and an eight-channel mixer in front of my face is like sending a little kid into a...
  • Elvis Presley
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    Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley, in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Presley's were poor as people could be at the time and Vernon tried a variety of jobs to support his family. He was often away and Elvis developed a close bond with his mother. She had lost other son at birth and her ability to have other children. She put all her hopes on her one surviving son and was not to be let down. The family moved to Memphis in 1948 and that's where Elvis' musical talent...
  • Music Industry Sues Over Downloads
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    To Steal Music or Not to Steal Music The music industry is a very cutthroat business. Within the past few months a great deal of controversy has arisen. This controversy is based around whether copying music and sending them to friends is illegal or not. There are many different views on this but recently record companies have taken legal action against file sharers and these people who have been convicted have been given penalties for their actions regarding music copyrighting laws. Considering...
  • 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...
  • Legendary Chicago House Music Producer
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    So many people have asked me this from all over the world that I thought that its time to write something about it, and help people understand what it's all about. I thought I would try and put something positive together to help you certain people out there. But this is my outlook on what House is, and how it came about. It is not definitive angle on how House music got started. It is through years of reading books, talking to dj's and producers, and going to club nights that has allowed me to ...
  • Napster For The Exploitation Of Their Music
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    In the 21st century we live in an economy, relatively unhindered by the government, a policy called "lassie r faire" which allows the market to run without the government's control. Although there is a certain invisible hand that the government posses to ensure that monopolies, or any of the harmful businesses are being operated to ensure safety for the average citizen. "Napster" founded by Shawn Flanning is a web site which can be joined on any home computer with access to the internet, where t...
  • Napster And Other File
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    Sean Fanning, the creator of Napster, had no idea of the effects when he jump started Napster in 1998. Hundreds of thousands of songs were being exchanged by the blink of an eye, minute after minute, millions by the hour. This had the record companies and artists heads spinning with no solution for the matter in sight. From the greed stricken record industry executives to the teenagers downloading the latest Limp Bizkit track, it seemed as though everyone had their own stance towards the file sh...
  • Asylum Records And Jackson
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    Jackson Browne has been a vocal and eloquent advocate of social justice for over three decades. He has spoken out against US foreign policy, particularly as it applies to Central America, and his music has affected change through the increased social awareness of his large fan base, fans who are also voters. Clyde Jackson Browne was born on October 9, 1948 in Heidelberg, Germany to Jack Browne and Beatrice Amanda Dahl. Jackson's father was also a musician, a talent he inherited from his own fath...
  • Music Cd To A Digital Mp 3
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    Executive summary It's only been about three years since a little known extension of an audio compression technique-MPEG-2 Audio Layer-3 or MP 3-opened the door to being able to send large volumes of CD-quality music over the Internet by pack the equivalent of several commercial compact disks onto the equivalent of one CD platter (Lange 01). It also initiated the veritable floor of pirating activity by an underground community students and hackers. Hundreds of MP 3 Internet sites sprung up overn...
  • Bpi's Anti Piracy Unit
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    The British phonographic Industry; Introduction and historical development The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) was launched in 1972, although was formally incorporated in 1973, and has since been representing the interests of British record companies. The industry started off with just five members and its principle aim was to fight the growing problem of music piracy. Since then, the BPI now represents 267 record companies to date ranging from small independent labels, these include 2, Inde...
  • Workshops And Concerts In Music Stores
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    Every newsletter I tirade about something involving life as a traveling minstrel, sometimes complaining and sometimes waxing philosophical. This year I do not feel like chewing anybody out -- in fact, I want to thank a lot of people. I started out as a populist musician, playing for people wherever we were: at parties, on street corners, in taverns- anywhere, paying little attention to showbiz or music industry concerns. And now 25 years and 4 or 5 thousand gigs later, not much has changed. I st...
  • Record Companies And Music Fans
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    Introduction As technology improves, the current laws about intellectual property and copyright are being challenged. Copying of nearly everything, from sound, to text, to video is made simple with computers, the Internet, scanners, CD burners and other technology. Specifically, this paper examines how the conflicts between intellectual property laws and technology are affecting the music industry. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimated in the 1980's the worldwide value of pirated music to be...
  • Swap Music Files
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    "RIAA Targets Are Surprised By Piracy Suits" Author: Nick Wingfield & Nick Baker September 16, 2003 The Wall Street Journal Section B 1 & B 2 The record industry has made another attack on the millions of people who download music from online media libraries. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) targeted individuals who had uploaded large amounts of songs in recent months and they also targeted users which have the most copyright violating songs. So far the RIAA has filed 261 law...

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