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A Case about Music

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

During my long break from the Soul Café, I took time to catch up with my friends and acquaintances online. I also heard a lot of good music on You Tube. I was really amazed by the variety of good music that was now available even in the Christian music field. Internet has changed many things. One field that has seriously benefited by the advent of the Internet is “music”.

Music industry used to be the monopoly of a few production houses and big labels, but it is no longer so. The cheap distribution that internet allows has made survival a basic issue even for the biggest banners. The developments in digital recording and more importantly in digital reproduction in the post-napster era have led to an explosion of creativity. Millions of amateurs have emerged who have contributed to all genre, sub genre and micro genre of music and most importantly these amateurs share their music online. Off late single song releases are gaining popularity over album releases. The motto is to make buying of music so affordable that people do not think about stealing it and rightly so. (more…)

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