The Record Industry's Challenge
The Record Industry's Challenge
Through out the 21st century there has been many ups and downs in the music industry. One problem was whether or not to take a risk and go ahead with a new style of music or whether a particular person would be a good investment as an artist. Although that wasn't the only problems they faced another problem would have to be the age of internet file sharing (or other wise known as illegal downloading) and what it would do to their number of sales and how it would affect pop culture.
Let me start with a quick history of how the internet plays a major role in the presses of file sharing. In 1900 the World Wide Web was created (first ever web page) by Tim Berners-Lee. After launching the first ever web page, in 1998 mp3.com was founded by Michael Robertson. A year later on June 1999 Napster is released. Which created the birth of peer to peer file sharing and illegal music down loads. File sharing is the practice of making files available for other......
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