Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The State of Music Online

Information received from pewinternet.org

Decline in U.S. album sales over time

Number of PCs with one or more p2p applications

Napster arrived at a time when tightly controlled access to new music was still the norm.

While online radio stations were starting to flourish, music lovers were becoming disillusioned with the homogenizing effects of terrestrial radio consolidation that was enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

The revolutionary file-sharing application created by college student Shawn Fanning officially launched in June of 1999.

Project data shows that 69% of online Americans have already taken advantage of some form of cloud computing such as using webmail services, storing data online, or using other applications whose functionality is located on the web.

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