iPods are today's next generation of portable CD players, you can carry your music around with you everywhere you go.
With computerization taking over society, CD players now seem like relics in an age of digital media. Digital formats, like MP3s, have taken their place and storage mediums have changed completely. No more moving parts!
When you buy a CD, the money definitely goes back to those who are involved in making and producing the album. However, with the proliferation of digital - a lot of that money doesn't end up going anywhere. A computer counterculture of "music should be free in the same way information is free" has been established. DRM is the obvious counter to this counterculture, it simply works to put the money back in the pockets of corporate actors.
Made me come across this little gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywgsXBGD68
More to come!
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Great blog! Something funny; I skipped right over the portable cd player. I had a walkman, then somehow went portableless for a few years, then got an IPod. Anyhoo, that was a side note.
I feel so bad for the artists who are losing out on so much money because albums just aren't selling. For an artists to go platinum is so rare now, because who would buy a cd if they could download for free. Artists that would never think of selling their songs to advertisers are now "selling out" more and more because it is becomming one of the only ways to make some real profit back, along with touring.
I feel bad for them but I still download, oops. I'll buy albums from artists that I really really love because I feel like it's almost a collectors item now haha.
Oh and whats up with Ipod coming out with a new version almost every year?? My 2006 Nano is just fine thank you!!
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