and the INTERNET
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last made 2002 March 25th
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of the technology developments mankind has made in the proceeding decades
and centuries have often been used for entertainment. One of the oldest
uses of technology is to make music - therefore it is no surprise that
the Internet is being used to allow people to share music all over the
world.
This increased ability to share music has good benefits (for listeners) and bad benefits (for record companies trying to maintain control and profits)
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- Yahoo's listing of Music
Related Topics is very very long
- music is the best example of how far reaching the Internet's impact has been this on-line article suggests record companies, as we know them, are dead. People will simply download music from the website of each artist /band
Presently Napster is receiving a lot of negative publicity due to complaints by artists and recording companies who claim they are losing revenue from pirate copies of their music being shared by Napster users "With Napster, you can locate
and download your favorite music in MP3 format from one
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http://www.digitrends.net/ena/index_15254.html "Napster, an online software offering that allowed users to swap digital music files, hit a high point in early 2000, when it was estimated 60 million people were using it. Napster was shut down this year after a court battle with the RIAA. Last month (Sept 2001), Napster agreed to pay US$26-million to license the work of writers and publishers and resolve a copyright infringement lawsuit." |
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how Napster is being replaced by alternative sources of music
http://www.digitrends .net/ena/index_15820.html "Popular file-sharing music
service Napster continues to slip as it complies with a court-ordered ruling
to block copyrighted songs with its users. While the record industry may
complain it's not doing enough, the company is losing users who are likely
frustrated at losing access to many songs. "
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Sharing Services File
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the four major file-sharing
services that have emerged in Napster’s wake:
July 12, 2001 "According to research by Webnoize a Netherlands-based software company called Fasttrack is on the brink of becoming the "new Napster" thanks to its explosive growth in popularity and unparalleled peer-to-peer networking technology. FastTrack's network topology is a distributed, self-organizing network. Neither search requests nor actual downloads pass through any central server. Audiogalaxy iMesh
Gnutella
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Sharing Services File
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Oct. 30, 2001 story in The Star
New Napster on hold until 2002 "Concerned that its rivals
may get a bigger audience, the head of Napster hopes to press play for
the
Listen.com "Once merely a directory of legally downloadable music, Listen.com is about to be reborn and will launch a new streaming music platform called Rhapsody. Rhapsody, set to launch in about two weeks, [from 30Oct2001] is an application in which users can store and access streaming song playlists for a subscription fee set by independent distributors."
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For information on issues in the music industry re: the internet, you should check this web site |
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AOL Time Warner Inc., EMI
Group PLC and Bertelsmann AG are developing MusicNet,
while Sony Corp. and
Vivendi Universal SA are working on Pressplay. The services are expected to work as online subscription services, allowing users to download music for a monthly fee. |
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AOL Time Warner Inc., EMI
Group PLC and Bertelsmann AG have developed MusicNet,
It was not active when checked
When we checked in March 2002 it seems to have some operational capability. |
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Pressplay is an equally
held venture of Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
It was not active when checked
When we checked in March 2002 it seems to have some operational capability. However, unlike MusicNet.com, pressplay have a really plain web site that does nothing to invite a person to check back later. |
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one of
the most popular sound file formats on the internet are .mid files or .midi
files
There are two basic types of sound files
If you want to learn more
about music on web pages, and if you want to learn about how to put music
on your own web pages, you are welcome to check out the section done by
Prof. Richardson for
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