To Fee or Not to Fee
Like the old saying goes, "The best things in life are free." digital media is no exception. Digital media has lately been getting attention due to the legal accusations on a certain type of digital media, MP3s. MP3 stands for Mpeg (a common file compression format) audio layer 3 (which means it compresses any audio into 3 layers for about 1/15th the size). The lawsuits that have been springing up lately contain two arguments. In one corner, we have the argument that an artist should be able to put their music on the internet for everyone to retrieve freely. In the other corner we have the argument that musical artists are having their music "stolen" by ruthless, internet thieves hence the artist gets no "pay" for his work. Can you think of the last time you said to your friend, "you've got to read this book, it's so good!"? If your friend liked that book, he/she would probably go out and get the next book done by that author. This is the state that mp3s are in right now, except with mp3s, it's on a more convenient level. You download mp3s, through a program like napster, listen to them and if you like them, naturally, you'd keep them, if you don't, you simply press the delete key. The more songs you retrieve (downlo
Then, another person sees your refined library of mp3s and adds their favorite songs to their refined list. The antagonist's point of view is that artists are "being robbed of their work. ad), the larger and more refined your library of songs gets. Eventually you have every person on their computers listening and associating with their library of mp3s. " October 9, 2000Time magazine: "Meet the Napster. This "natural selection" method is slowly revolutionizing the way that music is being spread and also bought. If the music industry drops the cases on programs like napster and mp3. It's the one place where you can gather as much information and friendly opinions as possible, on any artist, song or subject. Bibliography Works Cited:Time magazine: "Reinventing Rock. Letting the change happen on its own will allow the people to decide everything they want in music. With the "let it be" solution, the people's interest will increase, the quality of music will increase and the people will be able to choose what they want when they want.
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