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The History Of Censorship In Literature And Music
1,950 wordsWhat is censorship? An encyclopedia defines censorship as "the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do 1. " There are many reasons why people censor entertainment such as literature and music. Many governments or groups try to preserve their standards of morality by preventing people from learning about or following other standards 2, commonly found in the two previously mentioned mediums. There are different ways to censor things. It can be on a local level, such as ...
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21 St Century Listen To Music
1,357 wordsThe evolution of music in the 21 st Century has set a precedence for the future music, as we know it. Inspired by a fire and passion that revs up the soul; music is the soundtrack to our lives. When we are happy we listen to music, when we are sad we listen to music. Music satisfies and spawns a plethora of emotions that are held bottled up with in us; some use music as a vehicle to express deep thoughts and emotions, others use it to just let off steam that is built from the stress that life br...
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Mp 3 Files State Of California
1,588 wordsThe trading of MP 3 's or digital music over the Internet is always going to be prevalent in music, and it is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are losing due to MP 3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. Although downloading music over the Internet and playing it back on computer or portable digital music pl...
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Recording Industry Association Intellectual Property
1,401 words... for users to download an MP 3 (even an illegal one) and then decide to purchase an album is still there, but is probably reduced if all material is available for free on the Internet. Discussion While there are many debates about what is going on with copyright laws and technology, one thing is clear: change is inevitable. For better or worse, with every new technology, new regulations seem to appear. And, whether we agree with it or not, regulations are already in the works for digital musi...
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Recording Companies Capitol Hill
908 wordsDespite a year of headline-generating turmoil, musicians, techies, media executives and lawmakers gathering for the second Future of Music conference on Monday will find that much remains unresolved on the digital-music landscape. Over the past year, recording companies managed to force the shutdown of the free online song-swapping service Napster and launch services of their own. But they also saw new threats sprout up hydra-like in the form of second-generation free services such as Kazaa and ...
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Punk Rock Punk Bands
1,072 wordsMrs. Barbara Simpson English Comp II 25 March 2000 The Origination of Punk Rock The time was in the mid-seventies, there was a void in the music industry that needed to be filled. This need for a new sound was aptly filled by punk rock, a new type of sound that had evolved from mostly rock and a little pop music. The focus of this paper is on punk rock and it's ample beginnings, early pioneers of the new sound, punk rock listener's cultural background and their ideas as a whole, bands influenced...
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Popular Music Young People
1,629 words... Australia, will reflect what it is like living in a while, racist society. In the UK reggae is listened to by three or four generations of West Indians giving them all a common bond to their ethnicity. While in Australia, Aborigines and their families, have a particular attraction to Country and Western music despite its American origins. Country music emphasises past values and thrives on the identification of the rural ideal (Frith 1983, p. 26). This identification with the land may allow ...
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U S Supreme Court File Sharing
1,482 wordsThis essay discusses the future of the music industry from a technical point of view, probing into details such as Napster case verdict, iPods, iTunes and next generation audio delivery formats. The Music Industry A Futuristic Look Although only a miniscule percentage of music presently sold is also distributed digitally, downloads, subscription services, ringtones and ringback's are expected to grow exponentially in the coming years. According to Jupiter Research, ringtone revenues, which were ...
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Intellectual Property Rights District Court
2,882 wordsDigital Bootlegging and Its effects on the Music Industry Before the advent of MP 3 files it would require 1. 400 megabytes to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. MP 3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III. Standard MP 3 compression is at a 10: 1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track. In 1987, Prof. Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen created the MP 3 format to replace pre-existing MPEG audio coding. The reason MP ...
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Rock N Roll Millions Of People
1,847 wordsJohn Lennon October 9, 1940 marked the date the remarkable John Lennon was born. John was born and raised in Liverpool, England. Lennon did not have an easy childhood at all, he was left by his father and mother at a young age. Out of true kindness, his Aunt Mimi Smith took him in and supported him. She was a middle classed woman who also lived in Liverpool. John had a rebellious character and disliked the school system in Liverpool. He was quickly labeled a troublemaker and his only salvation w...
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Extreme Close Music Industry
775 wordsKiss: The Hype What is hype? Hype is defined as promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind. It is used to lure the consumer to a certain product or an event of some kind. The competition for the consumers attention is intense and even desperate at times. Throughout the 1970 s, there was a vast machinery of hype surrounding the music industry. Some of what came out of it was original and imaginative, but some was deceptive and outrageous. Whatever it was, it was all aimed at the co...
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Musical Talent Backstreet Boys
790 wordsPop music is incredibly popular. Not only can one hear bands such as the Backstreet Boys or N Sync playing on just about every radio station in the country, but bands such as this can be seen in toy stores in the form of action figures, or on posters hanging on the bedroom walls of pre-pubescent girls nationwide. These pretty faces and high-pitched voices are enough to drive the average, red-blooded male up the wall and beg for the days of Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top. Despite the disdain showed by t...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Heavy Metal Music
3,001 wordsThroughout history, the emotions of people have shown themselves in a variety of forms. Some of the people chose the medium of music to express their emotions and ideas. Music somehow became useless for some people, while music was still spreading across the world. But this work offended some people who were in the need of authority; these people tried to control the music created by the artists. This control of the music is in the form of censorship, and censurers used their political, economic...
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Sex And Violence Parental Advisory
1,208 wordsThe regulation of music in America has been increasing significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to burn or copy cd s. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of copyrighted music. Along with these regulations, the parental advisory system that has been in effect since the mid 1980 s has also taking many steps to update their system to help parents identify music which includes e...
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File Sharing Music Files
1,832 wordsThe Napster Dilemma By Oscar E. Casta? eda Introduction: What I call the Napster dilemma is a problem that involves new technological concepts and redefinitions of old ideas. This is the case for many legal and moral conflicts that are arising with the outcome of new possibilities and options made accessible by informatics and telecommunications. The importance of these problems has caught so much attention that in 1998, President Clinton signed the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act, where a ...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Files
2,216 words/ Copyrighted Napster NapsteCopyrighted we stand, Pirated we fall: This is what the music industry would have people believe. Welcome to the information age! Any information is available to whoever wants it, needs it, or just has a lot of time to spend looking for it. The latest victim of the information age is the RIAA, The Recording Industry Association of America. The argument: The right to trade RIAA artists songs using the Napster server in MP 3 format over the Internet. Can the furor over ...
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Indiana University Music Industry
932 wordsThe problems faced by Napster and how it affects us. INTRODUCTION Shawn Fanning let his closely cropped coiffure grow a bit shaggy, so his friends started calling him nappy. That evolved into a new nickname, Napster, which became the Internet handle he used in chat rooms. After sharing tips on guitar playing, Fanning told two cyber pals about a revolutionary software program he was working on. Encouraged by his new friends, he wrote the program and the idea attracted a sizable cash donation from...
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Music Scene Pop Music
818 wordsPop Culture Isnt Cool From my point of view, Great pop music is an oxymoron. These days people look to the media for the answer to everything, including what music to listen to, or in most cases what music to play in the back round. Im not saying all pop fans are closed minded to the point where they listen to the music genre that is currently trendy in hopes of it helping them position themselves socially. Im also not denying the fact, people like that are out there. In most cases, I think peop...
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Form Of Music Hip Hop
374 wordsHip-Hop Hip Hop Music Appreciation Hip-Hop is one of the newest forms of music. It has expanded and is now the most popular form of music for people ages 11 - 25. In the last 2 years, hip-hop is the most lucrative form of music. It has sold billions of records and has made record companies billions of dollars. Hip-Hop was started in New York City in the late 70 s by the cities youth. Hip-Hop was more than just music, it was a culture. It involved many things such as style, of dress, break dancin...
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Federal Trade Commission Joseph Lieberman
1,990 wordsTitle: Industry Slow To Reform Marketing Violence To Kids. (cover story) Subject (s): VIOLENCE in mass media United States; SOUND recording industry United States; ADVERTISING &# 038; youth United States; UNITED States. Federal Trade Commission; LIEBERMAN, Joseph Political &# 038; social views Source: Billboard, 05 / 05 / 2001, Vol. 113 Issue 18, p 1, 2 p, 1 c Author (s): Holland, Bill Abstract: Looks at reaction to a follow-up study released by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) w...
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