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File Sharing and the Music Industry

William Aspray

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Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: The Traditional Music Distribution System, Underlying Technologies, Early Legal Foundations: The Sony Betamax Case and the AHRA, Early Uses of the Internet and Related Technology for Marketing and Sharing Music, Streaming, Encryption Circumvention, and the DMCA, Creating an Internet Music Business From MP3 Technology, Napster and File Sharing, The iTunes Music Store, Attitudes Toward and Impacts of the Internet on the Music Business

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This chapter contains sections titled: The Traditional Music Distribution System, Underlying Technologies, Early Legal Foundations: The Sony Betamax Case and the AHRA, Early Uses of the Internet and Related Technology for Marketing and Sharing Music, Streaming, Encryption Circumvention, and the DMCA, Creating an Internet Music Business From MP3 Technology, Napster and File Sharing, The iTunes Music Store, Attitudes Toward and Impacts of the Internet on the Music Business

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This chapter contains sections titled: The Traditional Music Distribution System, Underlying Technologies, Early Legal Foundations: The Sony Betamax Case and the AHRA, Early Uses of the Internet and Related Technology for Marketing and Sharing Music, Streaming, Encryption Circumvention, and the DMCA, Creating an Internet Music Business From MP3 Technology, Napster and File Sharing, The iTunes Music Store, Attitudes Toward and Impacts of the Internet on the Music Business

Key concepts: File sharing, Music industry, The Internet, Encryption, Advertising, Business, World Wide Web, Internet privacy

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