The Effects The Mp3 Had On The Music Industry
The Mp3 format was created by Fraunhofer and Thompson multimedia in the early 1990's and has an advanced compression technique, meaning it enables music to be stored in a form that is as small as 1/12th the size of a normal audio file and still retain the same audio quality. Napster was created specifically to trade this format. Shawn Fanning created Napster and released it in beta form in mid 1999. It only took 11 months after the release to have the program banned from over 200 schools and get the company entangled in lawsuits involving 18 record labels and 2 major independent artists. Napster was finally shut down a little over a year after its release, it never even had a chance to develop into anything more than a beta version. Several months after the closing of the popular music site, the tally of replacement sites similar to Napster was over 100. Some of the programs were even designed to function independently so that the RIAA would never be able to shut them down. Napster would continue to popularize the Mp3 format so much, that it would soon open the doors for future portable music players and almost get rid of the infamous cd single. Napster was a program that allowed users to share and transfer songs between
promoted the illegal distribution of music. The suit against Diamond was thrown out on the grounds that one could not regulate a music player. Less than one year after that decision, hundreds of Mp3 players and Mp3 related products have been released into the market costing anywhere from $100 to $1500 and sometimes even more. The Mp3 category has expanded not only to just portable players, but now you can find them in cars and even in home stereos. ones. Even it the RIAA claims to have suffered huge losses, they still came out positive in the end. If anything, Napster helped publicize new artists and sell more albums. become the only artist to have an unreleased song enter the Billboard charts. Users had recorded and traded the song online after he had performed it live on an awards show. other Napster users. The more users Napster had, the larger the list of available songs became. At the height of the Napster trial, Napster was gaining over 1 million users every day and had over 60 million registered users on the Napster network without any marketing. Napster traffic nearly quadrupled between october 1999 and november 1999, and almost quadrupled again from november 1999 to february 2000. The word was traveling faster that an advertisement could carry it.
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