Napster

stolen creates knowledge to be more careful next time. If people want to steal your songs next time the artists will know to make them better. Although, some artists feel that stealing music takes away from their actual music. When Elliot states “Napster is a form of theft. No doubt about it.” indicating that he does not agree with the free downloads. In addition, Elliot, along with other artists, have trouble with getting on the international radio because of not having exposure. Furthermore,…

BitTorrent is an internet protocol which supports peer-to-peer(p2p) file sharing to hand out large amounts of data around the world. Essentially this program takes the hassle of transferring large data file from one huge server to every user over an extremely robust network connection and splits it up to multiple normal pc’s, and multiply smaller networks connections. This software is the most common form of decentralization, starting with its ease of use and wide variety of file sharing…

Taylor Swift’s record label has finally explained why the country-turned-pop singer decided to pull her entire music catalogue from the Spotify streaming service. During the week of her release of her successful album 1989, Swift took down the single “Shake It Off,” along with all of her other music. Scott Borchetta, president of Swift’s label, Big Machine Label Group, has stated that removing her songs was a “big fist in the air” that he believes other big-name artists will likely follow. In…

Throughout the history of popular music culture, common experiences among people of different cultures were shared by way of music, dating all the way back to the early 1920s from wax cylinders to vinyl records to cassette tapes. With rapid improvements in technology over the past three decades, the audio encoding format, the mp3, which would become one of the most innovative inventions of the 20th century, has led to many unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture…

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their music for use in an advertisement? Those days are long gone. Inevitably, the world evolves and those who refuse to conform to the new standard are left in the dust wondering how they steered wrong. MTV changed everything when it first aired; Napster did the same two decades later; Apple continued the trend with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes. Artists need to keep up with the exponentially changing way that the public gets exposed to their music if they desire to continue being…

Since the first appearance of digital music, piracy has been an issue. In 1999, when napster became the first peer to peer sharing service, the sales of downloads and CDs decreased significantly (Bender and Wang). People were in consternation with free access to music, so they stopped buying cd’s anf records. Soon after debates of whether…

In the past the internet has been free flowing and unrestricted. Recently, the FCC was in a court case with a big ISP company and the verdict was opposite to the current internet regulations which has caused the FCC to reinvestigate this topic. The definition of Net Neutrality is the concept that broadband Internet service providers should provide nondiscriminatory access to Internet content, platforms, etc., and should not manipulate the transfer of data regardless of its source or destination…

In order to accomplish anything of magnitude, trails must be blazed, and enemies may be made. Steve Jobs certainly accomplished both of these, and became one of the most influential members of the technology world in the process. While he was not the most friendly or orthodox, Steve Jobs became a juggernaut in the business world through a combination of competitiveness, out of the box thinking, and an incredible sense of entrepreneurship, even if it meant sacrificing the wellbeing of…

Music has been a common, popular and enjoyable entertainment for all ever since it was invented. With the discovery of music has led to an automatic invention of the music industry, which is comprised of people creating, selling and producing music. The music industry has been generally successful, but as time passed, the music industry has had to cope with the changes technology has brought since the introduction of the internet. The establishment of world wide web was the start of the music…