This article, on the Guardian website, shows the developments that bands are choosing to make in order to make sure they are up to date with current technologies and therefor make the most money. another article that relates to this is:-stars compose new ways to use music.
apple have introduced a new service called "complete my album". this allows customers to download an album for a cheaper price than previously. this move has been encouraged for a long time. this shows that even new developments such as downloading can constantly be further improved.
illegal downloads
"Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated", the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has admitted. "the music industry is convinced illegal music downloads are having a detrimental effect on record sales."
The scale of the problem is huge - in 2001 IFPI and affiliated national groups were responsible for the removal of:
1,060 unauthorised servers
28,000 pirate web and music sites
700 million unauthorised music files
"In the US there are a handful of legitimate offerings but in Europe there are almost no real legitimate forms available."
however, free music downloads, whether illegal or legal, will always be more popular than having to pay for legal downloads.
Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone and Apple TV (a device to stream music and movies from a computer to the living room) at the annual Mac world Expo in San Francisco.
the phone has no conventional buttons and instead uses as large touch screen.
the touch keyboard is available for text messaging and there is a built-in two mega pixel camera.
the iPhone is an example of convergence technology. it combines music and mobile phone technology to create a state of the art phone with touch screen technology.
Steve Jobs -
"the iPhone is literally 5 years ahead of any other mobile phone"
"the touch pad ignores unintended touches. It's super-smart"
"the iPod changed everything in 2001. We're goin to do it again in 2007"
there are two version of the iPhone available, one with 4GB storage space and the other with 8GB.
1 comment:
Jo - this is a relevant article, but you need to find more than one!
Keep going
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