Throughout life I have encountered several different mediums of music including

eight-track recordings, vinyl records, cassette tapes, mini-discs, digital audio tapes (DAT),

and compact discs. I have always considered the CD to be the greatest technological

advancement (as a medium of music) of my generation because it was the first digital

audio format made readily available to the general public. Because of the CD, people

were hearing music like they had never heard it before - exactly as it would sound in the

artist's recording studio. Among other things, we have digital audio technology to thank

for that. But we have recently been presented with something new that some may give

thanks for - Moving Picture Experts Group Technology, Layer-III, better known as MP3.

To those "outside" the complicated world of the Internet and technology, MP3

probably will not ring any bells. But anyone who has accessed the Internet or skimmed

through any popular magazines lately will likely recognize MP3 and the propaganda

I do not want to bombard you with numerous technological terms, but a brief

explanation is necessary in order to un

to the particular song that was playing (which I happened to take a liking to). I paid close

(monetarily) from their God-given talents. Not only would musicians go broke, but they

contract record deal with a major recording label. Another way to think of it is that MP3

When you're leading a revolution, you don't grab the king and say, 'I've got a good idea,

charge, major record labels have a great fear.

it for fear of privacy, since the format also allows for widespread copying of illegal files."

The new MP3 format needs to be regulated to prevent copyrighted material from

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