Legale MP3-Downloads: Musik 2. Klasse oder geniale Anwendung neuer medialer Distributionsmärkte? Das Beispiel MP3.com
Abstract
Legal MP3-Downloads: Second Class Music or Ingenious Application of New Media Distribution-Markets? The Example MP3.Com.
The innovative MP3-format for audio-files that makes quick transfer possible
by compressing the usual wave-material down to one eleventh, gave the
internet a new aspect: Legal and illegal downloads of thousands of
soundfiles have become a daily procedure. As the illegal ones are a problem
for musicians and record companies because of copyrights, the legal files
offer new chances: For the first time musicians feel able to distribute
their own works quickly, easily and worldwide without spending lots of money
for advertising or waiting for a record company contract.
The internet-site "MP3.com" is one of the first and
greatest sites to offer these legal mp3-downloads. The article demonstrates
how the music is arranged here in musical categories, ranging from easy
listening to heavy metal and covering all styles, and how additional
information on the musicians is given in order to make search easier.
Preview-options allow to listen to files before download and will give help
for the decision if the download may be worth it.
Many musicians who offer their songs for download
offer also CD´s that are selfmade and produced by their own. These media are
not available in stores, for the bands and musicians do not have a
traditional distribution system. These independent newcomer musicians use
the new mp3-media to give legal and free appetizers for the rest of their
work, which then can be bought comparatively low-priced.
The quality of this music that is still relatively
or completely unknown to the public does not differ much from the material
we can hear on the radio: There will be songs you like and songs you
dislike, ther are many files of suberb and interesting arrangements in all
styles. Even music lovers and music sociologists will see the chance:
Listening to songs that nobody else has might be a stimulus to search for
new talents and sounds.
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