![]() Thom Yorke (Radiohead), 10 September 2000. Introduction "The cool thing about Napster is that it encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do" The Uses of Technology: A Brief Genealogy of the Mechanically Reproduced Sound In other words, the MP3 phenomenon should be examined as a part of the cultural transformation that the Internet 'explosion' produces on a global scale. The second direction, is attempting to situate the MP3 phenomenon in its general technological, economical and political framework. It is argued that in the past several technological developments have already challenged the music industry's status quo in similar ways. The first one attempts to present the MP3 phenomenon as a part of the challenges that the music industry had to face. The main arguments in this paper will try to approach the phenomenon from two directions. This essay is an attempt to present and critically discuss the phenomenon of music piracy on the World Wide Web. ![]()
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