How has the music industry been affected by internet and digital downloading?

By arona0110

  • Nichols, Natalie. "Facing The Music." Los Angeles Magazine 44.7 (1999): 58. Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson). Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    Because of the development of digital music files online, the music industry is faced with the problem that artists no longer need to go through the record process making and intead can less time to release their music which could impact their profits negatively.

  • Faust, John. "Digital Music: Educational Issues." Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal 2 (2001): 367. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    This articles talks about the implications digital downloading has for students and how it is protected and not protected. Also how it affects educational institutions as well.

  • Javier, Pedro Valle. "Recording Industry At Odds In Fight Against Online Piracy." Caribbean Business 34.5 (2006): 37. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    Downloading music digitally online while illegal has decreased CD sales. The music industry has taken a major loss due to music piracy.And because the cost of CD's havent changed more people are sharing music online instead.

  • Grala, Alyson. "The best goes on: the music industry is all ears as digital downloading continues to change the way consumers buy and listen to songs." License! 2006: 232. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    This source is about how licensed music has changed drastically from what it used to be to now being more available to the public. Instead of publishers paying money to artists for their licensed music, now the artisits go to publishers and publish their music for free. Video games is a popular way that music is advertised it also is a way for the public to access and download the music digitally or online.

  • Mwanza, Chimwemwe, and Benedict Kelly. "Turning In On The Internet." Finweek (2006): 72-73. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    This article states facts such as the digital sales of music is more than that of physical music formats and that because of this the online music market is going to increase their profits by a lot.One of the reasons the music industry allowed digital downloading of their artists music was because of how much piracy was going on.The music industry has also tried to shut down some of the bussiness that make downloading and swapping available but has had little success.

  • Kwong, Sze Wan, and Jungkun Park. "Digital Music Services: Consumer Intention And Adoption." Service Industries Journal 28.10 (2008): 1463-1481. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    This article displays the implications of dowloading music online such as it is a breach of intellectual property and most of the downloading is illegal.There were tests done to test the problems of downloading music digitally and one of the main reasons people do it is because it's free,

  • Woods, Adam. "Filling Digital Space." Music Week 2 (2009): 24. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

    Because of the fact that digitally dowloading music online can be free on most sites it has caused other music industries such as Amazon MP3 to allow variable pricing. Labels are now able to earn more money if ther are able to put their music onto various sources.

  • Sales in the music industry has decreased because of digital downloading. This however has no effect on the illegal downloading of music records.

    Dörr, Jonathan, et al. "Music As A Service As An Alternative To Music Piracy? An Empirical Investigation Of The Intention To Use Music Streaming Services." Business & Information Systems Engineering 5.6 (2013): 383. Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.