Digital music, in combination with the internet, has allowed people all across the world to download any song they desire completely free of charge. This is great for consumers, but it is a frightening problem for all involved in the music industry. Illegal downloads have taken the online world by...

In creating strategic alternatives for a company, it is important to take into account the various challenges and dynamics of the current business world. Particularly, it is also important that the company focus on the specific industry within which they function, and how they can best use industry...

Social Policies of the Music Industry: An Inside Look into Record Labels Record labels come in all sizes and shapes. There are large, well-funded labels, organized and run by major corporations such as Sony Music and Capital Records. The more money a label has the more people they...

Dear Mr. President,I'd like to discuss a problem involving music sharing and Napster in America today. With the recent court hearing against Napster many teenagers and people are enraged with the judgment against Napster. I feel that music sharing should be legal regardless of the copyright laws i...

Fighting Music PiracyAh Internet, what a phenomenal invention! These days absolutely anything is possible to do and to get through the Internet. For instance, some of the most popular positive activities include the availability to instantly access the museums and libraries all across the wo...

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College BA (Hons) Music Industry Management Level 1 MI216 – Music Publishing · Assess and appreciate the function and process of music publishing. · Interpret the relationship between music publishers and the agencies who act on ...

X-Napster The infamous Napster under attack for it's pirating of music from famous musician's needs to be shut down. Piracy is a major issue of moral standards, right, and wrong in the entertainment world. Napster is well known for it'...

The Cat Nobody Likes "COPY-CAT!!!" a child yells out to a peer who has copied his new-found idea. Many of us have used this term, yet do we really understand the depth of what we are saying? In today's world, there exists a large number of "c...

Chisa D. PennixThe Effects of Censorship the Rap Music GenreSenior Seminar ProjectIntroduction"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to as...

The contents of a magazine consist of many different parts. The advertising is one of the largest parts that make up a magazine and its not uncommon for advertising to take up more than half the magazine. Another large part are the editorials and interviews, which are usually why people end of b...

Mike Rossi Sarah Holmes Writing 101 November 27, 2000 Napster, Fighting for Survival The Internet provides many different types of information on virtually any topic possible. There are many components that make up the Internet besides text. Software that is available on the Interne...

Napster What would you do if had a access to all the music that you wanted and it was free? Well, in the age of the internet this situation is possible with mp3's. Mp3's are compressed digital audio files which has near cd quality sound. It was developed by a German engineering form cal...

Jason Nikouyeh Professor WillisEnglish 111, Section 1334 November 1999Technology is Changing the Way We Listen to MusicDownloading MP3s from the Internet should be made legal. An MP3 is a near CD quality digital recording of a musical piece that is compressed so it can be distributed through the In...

Napster Back in the late 1970s, out of nowhere, a college dropout created a computer operating system that changed the world-and created the Microsoft empire. Today, a Boston-area college dropout's idea is transforming the way people think about technology and the Internet. All it took was a ...

In recent years, the recording industry has been fighting a losing war to maintain and increase CD sales levels. The reason for lower sales is not that recorded music has become unpopular. The reasons are because Internet technology and servers like MP3, Monster, Kazaa and other web sites allow us...

The album artworks of Storm Thorgerson and the music of Pink Floyd are part and parcel of the same production. To understand the artwork, it is necessary to discuss where the movement came from, as this directly relates to the artwork as the visual metaphor. To understand this, it is important to d...

Remember the days when a person would have to wait in line for two days just to purchase U2 tickets? Remember the days of tapes and videos? Hey, let's get with the program, it's now the 21st century, the information, technology age. All one has to do is flick on the computer, get on-line, type in...