Sample Research Proposal on How MP3 Phenomenon and of Peer to Peer Transferring Sites such as Napster have Impacted on the Music Industry
Introduction The rise of the Internet has produced new social practices that never could have been predicted. Among those is the practice of peer-to-peer (P2P) music file sharing. The new computing technologies have provided to the Net users the opportunity to download to their personal computers and distribute to the Web, free musical pieces of art in digital format. This is a result of a file-compressing technology called MP3 , which has made the transportation of music in the Net very easy (Kasaras, 2002) This software program, which Internet consumers gained access to in the mid-1990s, enables users to compress recorded songs from personal music collections into a file of 3.5 megabytes from a song on CD originally of 40 MB, thus decreasing transfer time from two hours to 10 minutes. This convenience began to fuel the practice of file swapping and was further encouraged by the introduction of the website MP3.com, portable MP3 players, and later, Napster . In...