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...

edi k.THE MUSIC INDUSTRY - GLOBALIZING IN MANY WAYSThe music industry is in a time of growth at this very moment. The environment for its growth has been increasing rapidly on many geographical boundaries and has been established through information technology and Internet. In this paper I will anal...

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...

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...

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...

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...