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MP3 technology, short for MPEG-1 Layer 3, first appeared on the Internet in the late 1990’s, and as time passed users could retrieve the musical works of artists or groups by accessing a website or file-sharing utility. This not only gave exposure to these musicians, but it also gave smaller, less known artists chances at exposure. Mp3.com began some years later, a website initiated for the soul purpose of allowing local musicians with recorded albums or demos to publish their works to the mainstream Internet, and gained much popularity as MP3 became more eminent. Then MP3s became a national sensation with the release of Napster, a program that allowed users to trade songs with other users across an Internet network. A political storm approached as more and more MP3 users collected songs on their computers and purportedly stopped buying albums.
Somewhat of a bad mark has been put on the “MP3� name by the government and recording industry because of the negative......

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