When they get to the present and the future they all agree that it is unknown. The only sure fact is that the Digital Revolution has started and the companies that have a relationship with music are changing in order to adapt. This includes record labels, artists, distributors, sellers, and also another part of the industry which is very important, the electronic manufacturers. Everyone has created their digital player, and the biggest brands are planning their futures based on the changes of this new technology to download, administrate, carry, and listen to music. .
This is a very particular subject and it was not easy to do research as there are hardly any books that explain what is going on. The book about this is being written everyday as we see advances in technology and we see how the big labels reveal their plans for the so called "Digital Era". If we would do this same research paper in one or two months we would find many new information that until now we don"t know. .
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). .
"The good news about music in cyberspace is that it's so new that the law and industry customs haven"t hardened to stone" (PASSMAN). This in part is very good news because it means that there are many decisions to take and the people who are now involved in the industry will be the ones who make those decisions based on their convenience. The problem is that many other people are taking advantage of this "anarchy" situation and they are making the major companies lose millions of dollars.
