EMEPE3.COM and THE DIGITAL MUSIC REVOLUTION

Since the beginning of the music business until now, everything was really simple. Like the clothing business or the furniture business, the goods for sale were tangible. The goal of the artist, the record label, and all the parties involved in the business was to sell records. Vinyl, cassette, and compact disc are tangible, digital music is not. So how do you buy music now? How do you get it? How do you listen to it? How do you carry it? All these are questions that even a person who worked for fifty years in the industry doesn’t know. The answer can be easily be provided by a fifteen year old who spends many hours on the computer and probably knows how to get that music, how to listen to it, and how to carry it

The Internet has been already working for many years and so has digital music. As the number of Internet users increased so did the number of music websites that made music available to the public without having the legal rights to it. The software companies started little by little improving the quality of the sound until a company created a format called MP3, which is abbreviation for MPEG Layer 3. This was the first format that could save a song in your computer with the same CD quality but only occupying 10% of the disk space that a CD song needs (KING).

“There are now several new paid subscriptions services in the market. The result? They’re not your daddy’s Napster” (LEARMONTH). The services are not much better than before and the only clear difference is that now you have to pay to get what you could easily get for free. There’re still many pirate services online and while they continue operating people won’t pay any money to download music unless they get something extra in return (PASSMAN). None of them have discovered what is it that they have to do to make their services more attractive, but they are investing millions of dollars on it and they will for sure find the way to maintain their leadership and control over the music industry.

Some topics in this essay:
Digital Revolution, Apple Macintosh, Warner BMG, MPEG Layer, Digital Decade, PASSMAN None, MusicNet Pressplay’s, Napster” LEARMONTH, Vivendi-Universal SONY, Samsung Aiwa, record labels, digital music, music business, record labels artists, music distribution, music changing, labels artists, internet music, online music, digital revolution, music industry, music listen carry,