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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In 2009 President Obama said to the nation’s students‚ “Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice‚ but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team”(Obama 2009). One of the most pressing issues in America is the decreasing academic performance of urban schools. Students in urban schools are not achieving as much as their suburban counterparts and educators have very few ways to motivate students to do better. While there are many issues
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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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technology issues affected this response? - 4. What is the current business strategy of the music industry? Do you think it is viable? Explain your answer. The first strategy of music industry was the napster. For me it is viable‚ because people gets MP3 music files by downloading it from their personal computers. CASE STUDY Can the music Industry change Its Tune? Submitted to: Ma’am Lorico Submitted by: Caturan‚ Nikka Nicolle L. Sayson‚ Shera Joy L.
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companies are furious‚ claiming that file swapping is destroying their album sales and greatly hurting the artists. Music consumers are justifying their actions by stating that album prices are outrageously high. In Anthony Gorry’s essay‚ “Steal This MP3 File: What Is Theft?”‚ the author demonstrates how illegal downloading of music is becoming a huge problem in today’s generation. Illegal downloading needs to remain a crime because it affects the artist‚ the individuals that perform the crime‚ and
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if people want to listen to music‚ they just visit a music store and pick up a CD and then put it into a stereo equipment. However‚ the development of MP3 file format gradually changed the way people listen to music. This format lets everyone download music easily and it can be converted to CD as well. But‚ there is still a problem: searching MP3 files on the internet is maddening and people seldom can find the music they want. Therefore‚ the birth of Napster solved this problem‚ creating a virtual
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