The Effect Of Digital Technology On The Music Industry
The effect of digital technology on the music industry
Nowadays, teenagers are living constantly surrounded by technology. Even if the younger generation may not see it, technology has had an impact on different factors. The widespread use of digital technology in the music industry has allowed consumers to reproduce digital versions of copyrighted songs inexpensively, with the help of many software and websites. There has been an increase in digital copying activities and those are most of the time claimed responsible for producers’ loss in revenues. While some people claim that the increase of digital technology has killed the music industry, in fact it has lead to innovation and new ways of consuming and sharing music, such as iTunes or YouTube.
The growth of download and exchanges of music are held responsible for the decrease of music sales since the end of the 90s. Information and communication technologies, and specially Internet, changed the logic of consumption and the process of producing music. The music industry has been touched since 2000 by a crisis and the organizations representing this industry like to claim that web users who are exchanging private copies via peer-to-peer networks are to blame for this crisis. Peer-to-peer networks are networks where users act as both suppliers and consumers of the content. The file-sharing, and peer-to-peer, website Napster emerged in 1999 and since then, music sales in the United States of America have dropped 53%. However, the American government is fighting against those file-sharing websites and a few of them were seized, such as LimeWire in October 2010. One of the biggest challenges for the music industry was to deal with the invention of the MP3 file. This file came to life between 1996 and 1999 and since then, piracy became more and more important. The MP3 file enables people to save files on computers and to share music with anyone in the world. It led to the creation of music sharing software,
Nowadays, teenagers are living constantly surrounded by technology. Even if the younger generation may not see it, technology has had an impact on different factors. The widespread use of digital technology in the music industry has allowed consumers to reproduce digital versions of copyrighted songs inexpensively, with the help of many software and websites. There has been an increase in digital copying activities and those are most of the time claimed responsible for producers’ loss in revenues. While some people claim that the increase of digital technology has killed the music industry, in fact it has lead to innovation and new ways of consuming and sharing music, such as iTunes or YouTube.
The growth of download and exchanges of music are held responsible for the decrease of music sales since the end of the 90s. Information and communication technologies, and specially Internet, changed the logic of consumption and the process of producing music. The music industry has been touched since 2000 by a crisis and the organizations representing this industry like to claim that web users who are exchanging private copies via peer-to-peer networks are to blame for this crisis. Peer-to-peer networks are networks where users act as both suppliers and consumers of the content. The file-sharing, and peer-to-peer, website Napster emerged in 1999 and since then, music sales in the United States of America have dropped 53%. However, the American government is fighting against those file-sharing websites and a few of them were seized, such as LimeWire in October 2010. One of the biggest challenges for the music industry was to deal with the invention of the MP3 file. This file came to life between 1996 and 1999 and since then, piracy became more and more important. The MP3 file enables people to save files on computers and to share music with anyone in the world. It led to the creation of music sharing software,