MP3s Are Killing Home Taping: The Rise of Internet Distribution and Its Challenge to the Major Label Music Monopoly1.

The phrase “home taping is killing music”—a slogan invented and heavily promoted by major labels to combat the unauthorized duplication of music in the early-1980s—now sounds quaint after the rise of digital distribution. Because the legal arguments surrounding the trading of copyrighted music on fi...

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Published in:	Popular Music & Society Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 521 - 532
Main Author:	McLeod, Kembrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2005
Subjects:	MP3 (Audio coding standard) Digital audio standards Digital music Computer sound processing Music
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost