... modern day tape traders. He says it's just like back in the old day when we used to tape record off the radio. The prices of cd's don't help deter people from downloading mp3s either. Harris states an example from his own life when he heard a song but didn't know who it ... was. He got home searched for it on Napster downloaded it and loved it. Then he bought all his cd's and saw him in concert twice, all due to mp3s. Although Harris's analysis has some strengths. I think he is too one-sided, leading him to ... spend close to twenty bucks on something I"m not sure I"ll like. Harris's po...

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... one might think that the music sales have dropped dramatically, however, that is not case. A recent study states that "file-sharing led to 5% fewer CD sales worldwide last year" ("Digital Music Hardly a Lucrative Sector" 2). Although the sales are down, bands like "N Sync "broke the one week record for ... CD sales, ringing up more than 2.5 million" copies sold of one of their albums (Band 2). One suggestion that is being made is that people are ... previewing what they hear on such MP3 programs and then "buy the higher-quality CD if they like what they hear" (Band 2). Is the music indu...

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... In these rooms, there are servers who have lists of thousands of audio and video files, software, and video games. These files include music CD's that have not even been released to stores yet and movies that have recently been opened in theaters. With over 40% of Web users ... the people downloading the music) have become a more serious issue, artists have begun to speak out against them. Bootleggers directly influence artists" profits off of CD's and their status through SoundScan. SoundScan compiles all record sales and, along with the RIAA, determines if an album is considered, gold ...

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... use to burn illegal music. Napster use to be one of the top CD burning web site until they were shut down. Some people don't understand that burning CD's makes the music stars lose lots of money. I asked a teen why did he think CD burning was an important topic, he said "it's making the rap stars ... right. After I talked to him he told me he found his information off of commercials and the web. I asked a student and she replied "you have to buy the CD's yourself". This young lady told me she found this information shopping at stores. Me, I think as a matter of a fact I know that it ef...

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... face a new foe like no other. With the combination of software such as Napster and the MP3 technology, users can now download songs with near CD quality at no cost. With all this new computer technology(Internet, MP3, Napster), moral issues have been subject to debate like never before. Is downloading ... free music stealing from the music industry? From the way I see it, the music industry has brought this upon themselves due to overpriced CD's. A CD costs on average 12 dollars. The CD's usually have one or two good songs that are worth listening to. For over twenty years, the industry h...

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... , once among the most robust and profitable sectors of popular culture, have fallen dramatically since the advent of Internet file-sharing operations like Napster. Before this technology came out, the CD market was a great success. However the initial demand of this technology drove prices up, as the market moved towards equilibrium. Due to such high demand prices stayed high for a considerable ... time, aggravating consumers. Department stores could afford to lower the CD prices to compete with music stores, which could not. The major music distributors decided to make a privacy policy ...

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... . Napster has become so famous for all of the copyright laws it breaks and an alternative to buying the artist's CD. There is no longer a need to buy CD's. Many who own CD Burners simply download their favorite MP3's and make their own music CD's. Despite this fact, Napster actually benefits artists and record labels in many other ways. It distributes all different types ... fans which can generate income in other ways such as concerts. One of the greatest benefits is that it saves people from having to go out and buy a 15-dollar CD. Instead people can download their favorite songs from ...

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... listen it to any time I want? Do I just go download Napster for free and steal it and then listen to it at any time I want; perhaps even burn a few MP3 CD's so I have an entire musical collection of stolen goods of which I robbed several artists of? By choosing the right decision, the consumer is not only satisfied with the music he ... , and ultimately our economy. The consumer supports the artists, the recording labels, the studios which record the music, the companies which print and package the CD's, the retail shops that sell the CD's and the manufacturers of CD players. Through the...

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Mp3 vs MD Portable audio player become more and more common in our life nowadays. CD-player, cassette player, radio, mp3 player and mini-disc player are some of the well-known portable audio player today. Among these portable audio player, MP3 and ... file of computer. The name of MP3 came from the extension name of this music file. MD player is like a CD player, except that disc for MD player is smaller and it can store the same amount of song as a CD. Both of this players have a lot of differences but there are both expensive in price. Therefore, it's seemed ... is that you can record an M...

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... from the Field Research Corporation, a San Francisco-based research firm, 22 percent of Napster users said that because of Napster, they did not buy CD's any more or they bought fewer CD's." This ultimately means that since CD sales are declining, music artists and industries are losing profits. RIAA also reported that its own survey of music buyers showed "...over 50 percent of ... that have downloaded music for free have made copies of it. Just two years ago, only 13 percent copied it onto a portable device or a CD burner." They also report that in 2001 40% of all "music consumers" ow...

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... people, all-free of charge. Not only can you listen to the downloaded MP3 files on the Napster Mp3 player, but it also allows people with CD burners to burn these MP3s onto a blank CD, which can now be taken anywhere. Rumors have now been proven true that Napster is going to make its members pay for the use of their server ... download it. The transfer process then begins and finally when it is done you have a complete song stored on your computer in MP3 format, which you can now burn onto a CD if you wish. According to the Recording Industry Associates of America this is illegal an ill...

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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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... the size of an audio file by an approximate factor of 12. This compression causes no loss of sound quality in the file. Due to these compression factors, a single recordable CD (CD-R) can hold hundreds of files. 2 The MP3 phenomenon was at first limited to the personal computer, but as the popularity of the format grew, several companies began developing personal MP3 ... of limited capacity, but more recent developments have made for greater storage capabilities and wider-spread use. MP3 capability is now included as a part of many DVD players. The portable CD player has been expanded t...

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... development of economies, as well as in social and cultural life. One way of stopping piracy is the use of unique forensics laboratories that trace the manufacturing source of pirated CD's through microscopic examination and measurement. This science has helped link infringing discs to source factories and resulted in many raids on suspect plants worldwide. Another method of stopping piracy is ... who download music from places such as Kazaa and Napster. Piracy is a critical issue in our culture right now. Everyone can help put an end to piracy by buying authentic CD's from stores (not ...

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... the world. The acronym MP3 stands for Moving Picture Exports Group 1, Audio Layer 3. This format is a type of compression made especially for digital audio. It works very effectively to compress CD-quality music into a file about one twelfth of the size, while retaining close to the original quality. This gives the listener an appealing new method to listen to music. Many ... , sometimes it can be hard to tell whether the music on offer is legal, and has been submitted by the artists themselves, or whether music has been copied from a copyrighted CD and published. The easiest way to tell...

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... via the internet and within a lot of IT professional societies. As a student in college I know that there is a lot of software that I would like that I cannot afford. There are music CD's that I want and there is a curiosity in my bones to know what someone else has on their computer. It is very easy to lose sight of the fact that obtaining ... ...

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... the computer to encode it into a file format, mp3, which compresses the file size without having to compromise any of the sound quality. Since any person that has a computer with a CD-ROM and a mp3 encoder can encode a song from a compact disk into a mp3 file, they can just as easily distribute the audio, copyrighted or not, to anyone connected to the internet ... ...

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... , digital media can be transferred quickly and exponentially. In 1987, the Moving Pictures Expert Group created a standard in music media called a MPEG 3 or MP3. MP3's allow users to take audio CD's and store them in compressed files on their computers. Because of their small size, MP3's quickly adapted to the online environment. A small program, that when downloaded to your computer can ... ...

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... music revolution hit in 1999 and Napster was introduced to the public. When speaking of the digital music revolution, I"m referring to MP3 files. MP3s are digitally encoded songs that have CD quality sound but are relatively small in size. This small file size makes them easy to transfer over the internet. The easy accessibility of these cost free files makes peer ... ...

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... . They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. The basically fight overseas piracy by encouraging governments to identify and warn infringers. The IFPI mainly targets illegal CD manufacturing plants and develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good ... ...

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... . They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. The basically fight overseas piracy by encouraging governments to identify and warn infringers. The IFPI mainly targets illegal CD manufacturing plants and develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good ... ...

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... ethics today is the issue of peer-to-peer file sharing. Peer-to-peer file sharing technology poses many legal and ethical questions. Does sharing copies of legally purchased music CD's constitute theft? While the technology itself isn't to blame for the illegal distribution of copyrighted material, do the providers of such technologies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that their ... ...

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