Knowledge sharing

Not all of the players in the music industry hated Napster. Some bands who knew that this peer-to-peer file sharing service was a way to promote their new music and their upcoming tours. When you step back and look at what Napster had created you realize that it was not just about "stealing" music it was about promoting new music to people who may not have known or heard that music before. You had some very well-known bands such as The Dave Mathews Band logging into the site and promoting…

time, they are also contributing money. Renting out spaces and equipment can become very costly. At the end of the day, being a musician is their job and they intend to make money off of their hard work. When consumers are illegally downloading and sharing their music for free, they are being robbed. This is unfair to artists as they are not being compensated for all the effort, time and money that they put into creating and editing their works. On the other hand, music piracy can also be seen…

discussed the impact the Peer-to-Peer sharing of music and that greatly negatively affected the industry, which could only be done through the invention of the MP3 format. In the chapter it talked about how “blind adoption of new technologies” can lead to effects that were not realized by the company. Thus a forewarning on adopting technologies without realizing their harmful effects, just like how the music industry was blind to the possibility of freely sharing your music over the internet.…

these applications have in common is that they are free and convenient, a lot like file sharing. Some have argued that since the rise of these sites, piracy is beginning to become obsolete. In “Streaming Reaches Flood Stage: Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?”, the authors state how Spotify has changed the effect of illegal downloading altogether and that every forty-seven streams the file sharing rate goes down by one (Aguiar, Waldfogel, 2015). While this does help the artist in a…

Music Piracy Pirates back in the 1800’s were known to sail the high seas, plunder ships, steal cargo, the list goes on. Pirates today are still around but they take a different form, they take the form of someone going on the internet and downloading a torrent of that catchy new song they heard on the radio or downloading an entire album from some no name artist that doesn’t have their album on Spotify yet. These pirates aren’t your traditional, pirates they’re music pirates. Music piracy hurts…

We all have seen what the love for music has done; it brought us together, cheered us, enlightened us, and romanticized us. It seems to not be the case anymore. The music industry has killed our music; it has deprived us from the warmth of music. It has turned our artistry into a monopoly. Although, it has brought massive amount of people together, it has also brought the destruction of uniqueness. Millions of people listen to the same thing that comes in the radio, not knowing the music they…

hours going through racks of records, cassettes, or cd’s. In the past, sharing music with a peer or friend meant loaning a physical copy of the music. Also the storage of the music took up a lot of space that could have been used for something else. Do not forget about how much care and cleaning went into maintaining it. However, that was all about to change. The most important parts of Napster are its history effects on sharing music around the world, and impact on the music industry. Listening…

industries, as well as many other industries ever since the creation of peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as NAPSTER. Many attempts have been made in an effort to curb digital piracy such as the raid on the outfit which hosted ‘The Pirate Bay’ in Sweden during 2006 which resulted in the confiscation of enough equipment to fill 3 trucks and the takedown of ‘The Pirate Bay’ website, the largest P2P file sharing site at the time. Although, this seemed like a triumphant success to the…

Dark Net The Dark Net is a computer network with restricted access that is used chiefly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. The dark net is a dangerous place on the computer, but are you safe from it? There were a few questions I asked myself about the dark net. Can the police control the dark net? Should the community be worried about the information on the dark net? What is my opinion on the dark net? The dark net is a place where visitors feel "safe", by being able to hide their internet…

One thing the article lacks is more in depth discussion around grunge music. The section of this book outlines the most important elements of sound for Nirvana’s performance along with detailed descriptions and comparisons of each of their songs in a live performance in 1990. These were both the two sounds Kurt Cobain was responsible for; guitar and vocals. Cobain’s vocal range is discussed in detail with a technical use of language by having ‘ a wide timbral and dynamic range from which to…