The History of Vinyl and CD In 1877 Thomas Edison was experimenting with a new telegraph devise when he accidentally runs indented tin foil under a stylus. The resulting speech like noise encourages him to develop an instrument ... this hardware and software, that wasn't quite good enough. They needed a new angle. A new way to sell music and the stuff you play it on. Hence the birth of the cd,a new digital format. It's maximum playing time, about 75 minutes, was chosen because the president of the company wanted something that could play his favorite piece of music, Beethoven's 9th ... the...

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... drive, so everything I save is saved to a disc. By the way, did you know that record companies get royalties from the sale of blank CD's? So what are they complaining about anyway? The record companies continue to disclose all of their survey findings. Asking people if they are participating in an ... illegal activity. I"m sure that everyone will tell you when they are doing something illegal. Also, stating that people are downloading instead of buying CD's, or that the downloading is down since the prosecutions of hundreds of downloaders. Well any introductory sociology class will tell ...

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... music can be distributed freely by end-users Due to the advantages that it offers customers, such as customizability and flexibility, digital downloading is a better way to deliver music than CD. However, examples and data provided within the case study have illustrated the downfall of digital music providers such as EMusic.com, which ultimately lost $18 million on revenues of $92 ... would much rather download music for free than pay for digitally downloaded music, companies such as Emusic.com were unable to maintain a viable business. Ultimately, consumers preferred digital music over...

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... programs such as this. In many instances, the downloaded songs provoke some to actually buy the album. Others, such as the students sued for downloading, have a collection of over a thousand CD's. All production companies have come together to stop these downloadable archives, but some have tried to continue with regulation. Now some archives are taking action and filing suits against minors ... stop now? Napster, the phenomenon, will live on, as more Napster-like programs start building around the net. Napster gives music lovers the opportunity to sample songs before purchasing the CD....

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... I am at all. Some people are not like that. The FTC has always been trying to get record companies to place parental advisory stickers on their CD's that have bad content, and now all CD's with explicit content have these stickers. The RIAA has mailed brochures making parents aware of what these stickers mean. Many record companies are blamed for children listening ... to music with explicit content. On the other hand, record companies blame retail stores for selling CD's to anyone even if they look too young. This is true ... because you can go buy a CD without your ID being checked t...

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... engines. File sharing can be compared to a virus that keeps spreading and cannot be stopped. Although music sharing can seems to be reducing the sales of CD's, most people that download music continue to purchase CD's. Yet why do record companies continue to complain about music sharing? The answer to this question is that record companies are using file sharing as a scapegoat ... . With the American economy at its lowest, how could record companies expect to prosper? In fact record companies themselves are responsible for the decrease in the sales of CD's. With the prices of CD's signif...

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... is big time record companies that have been ripping off music consumers for half a century. No more are we forced to buy a $17 cd because we only like one song, ending up with a pocket full of lint, and a cd full of shit. The Technology savvy, computer literate, youth of the world have struck back at the monopoly that is the recording industry ... know that even though my local record store does not carry a particular band or song I"m searching for, I can always find it on a p2p network. Just two weeks ago I found out a cd from one of my favorite bands was out of print. In the old days ...

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... pieces of technical equipment. These developments offer the public unlimited access to thousands of MP3's, at any given moment. MP3's show that CD-quality audio no longer requires the public to go the record store and pay 20 dollars for every CD that we purchase. It also means that there is now an audio format that can duplicate the security of the ... ...

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... an outlet for all the kids who want to rebel against the preppy styles that have overwhelmed the malls. They can get all of their "gothic" embellishments as well as CD's of their favorite artists who fit the genre. Once again, teenagers fail to realize that even Hot Topic is run by executives who market the products, record companies that publicize ... ...

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... an outlet for all the kids who want to rebel against the preppy styles that have overwhelmed the malls. They can get all of their "gothic" embellishments as well as CD's of their favorite artists who fit the genre. Once again, teenagers fail to realize that even Hot Topic is run by executives who market the products, record companies that publicize ... ...

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... : Music used in used in concerts that aren't broadcasted. Mechanicals': Royalties from record and reproduction of copyrighted music. Print: Songbooks, music scores and income from rental and public lending of CD's and videos. As a little tip to you I would suggest you open and run your own publishing company alongside your record company. It's very cost effective and saves a lot of time ... ...

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... media if you ask me. Why do record companies continue to employ these untalented, violent people? Why else? Money. Kids love to go to the record store and buy a $25 CD that costs the record company $4 to make. And a lot of that will go back to the rapper, making him rich, thus making him want to create more rap music, and ... ...

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... " which may result in so called "free advertising by getting editorial content into newspapers and TV/radio news reports. They will also produce promotional videos and/or other multimedia products (CD ROMs or DVD products), "plugging" the song/album and video (a plugger tries to get maximum airplay of the song/video by placing directly the product into the DJ or TV ... ...

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... much needed mystique and secrecy, as well as the new songs released on the album seem to lose some marketability. Also mass amounts of money are lost as when the CD is downloaded, buying of the album becomes unnecessary. Thus the supreme court ruled in favor of harsh penalties for those who download this music "illegally." A fine of up to one ... ...

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