technology around us. We are always at the forefront of fads and changes. In terms of music most people carry around with them an ipod or some form of mp3 player. In 2006 46.6 million ipods alone were sold by Apple. In the same year illegal downloads skyrocketed to 6 billion‚ a 47% increase from the previous year. The available of free music and the move to mp3 players show that there will soon no longer be any room for cd’s. Sadly this means that analog artwork will also be lost‚ unless artists provide
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Recommendation Engine * Personal Inboxes for Music and Messages * Ability to Browse Other Users Music Collections * Search Engines by Genre‚ Artist‚ Track Title‚ or Popularity * Complimentary products such as digital recording media‚ CDs and MP3 players * Ability to Send Music to Friends within or outside the service * Access to Professionally Programmed Radio Stations Napster was initially created between 1998 and 1999 by a 19-year-old called Shawn Fanning while he attended
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com by Shawn Fanning‚ then an 18-year-old freshman computer science student at Northeastern University.‚ was launched in the US‚ changing the global music industry forever. Napster was a system which enabled persons to locate music available in the MP3‚ and WMA1 music formats. The website made it possible for its users to freely share their music files through the Internet with other users around the world. however‚ Napster maintained a database of music files held on the computer hard-drives of other
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Napster could be driven to bankruptcy and Audiogalaxy‚ Scour‚ Bearshare‚ Aimster‚ Kava‚ iMesh‚ Limewire‚ Abe’s MP3 finder‚ Gnotella‚ WinMX‚ Tripnosis‚ Swaptor‚ Freenet‚ Mediashare‚ Yoink‚ Ohaha‚ Smirck‚ and several other file sharing programs would keep the pulse of sharing community beating. Napster is trying to work out a solution with the record companies.
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Back in 1994‚ the music industry saw the popularity of mp3 format‚ a compressed – lossy – digital audio format‚ however available in small file sizes in the PC community. The format provides a convenient way to store songs from CD (compact disc) to the hard-disk and was considered best practice to ensure longevity of the expensively purchased CD. All these advantages were also made it possible for mass distribution over the internet. This raised RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America)
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there’s a pretty high demand for music as it doesn’t take much before you’ve already spent $100 to fill your iPod by about 5%. An average mp3 player contains at least $800 of illegal music. About 95% of all music that is downloaded is pirated. Most people think it is ok because someone had to originally buy a CD‚ so they think of it as just sharing. An average mp3 player contains at least $800 of illegal music. The Hip-Hop artist Drake’s single "The Motto" is the most illegally downloaded single in
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Video File Formats 3GPP Multimedia File (3gp) Is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4Gphones. Advanced Systems Format File (asf) File format that wraps various content bit streams; data types can include audio‚ video‚ script command‚ JPEG-compressed still images‚ binary‚ and other streams defined by developers. This description is focused
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ACADEMIC ENGLISH II CD WILL BE LOST By Ibnu Dian – 1401089592 For more than two decades‚ most Indonesian people buy CD to listen into their favorite music. People still like to collect the physical artifact of the artist‚ until the Internet‚ MP3s‚ piracy‚ iTunes‚ Napster‚ YouTube and Melon.co.id kicked in over the past 10 years. The problem lies on CD sales has devastated by Digital music‚ leaving an industry in decline. Is CD too expensive? Does people prefer to get music illegally more rather
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Agrawal‚ & Wagner‚ 2004) The internet piracy effects the music and the CDs industry and makes a heavey losses in it . Many of people in the music industry claims that the internet piracy make the CDs sales decrease and the that unlawful MP3 downloads have come to be a substitute to lawful CD purchases Indeed‚ countless analysts trust that the present downturn in CDs sales is due to the rising and uncontrollable number of unlawful duplicates obtainable employing peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies
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CASE STUDY 1 Exploring Innovation in Action: The Changing Nature of the Music Industry Question 3. Can you map the different kinds of innovation in the case study? Which were incremental and which radical/discontinuous? Why? Give examples to support your answer. The first innovation that was mentioned in this case was that of an Incremental Innovation. An incremental innovation is a series of small improvements to an existing product or product line that usually helps maintain or improve
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