MP3 News Archive

The MP3 News Archive - 1999 to the Present

Below you will find original articles that appeared on MP3 Newswire from 1999 to the present that represent contemporary commentary during tumultuous years of change wrought by the most efficient delivery mechanism yet devised - the Internet. MP3 Newswire preserves these articles for media scholars of the future as a way to make their research easier. MP3 Newswire was one of the first - and for several years one of just a very few - sources for detailed commentary focused on this revolution in media delivery and consumption. These writings represent our viewpoint during the moment it was unfolding.

Many books and articles have been scribed about the music and movie industries. The digital media conflicts faced during the pre and post Napster era will no doubt serve as a fruitful topic for numerous writings to come.

This is our take. More than that, our desire to delve deeply into the shades of gray of the various issues illustrate a competitive advantage over the main stream media's decision to showcase these issues from a more black and white perspective. Frankly, this is what disappoints us most about how the traditional news outlets covered this topic. In their articles they only saw content providers and file sharers. As content providers themselves also struggling with disruptive technologies, their sympathies tended to lean more to the former.

Where the main stream media failed is that they almost never talked about this issue from the perspective of consumers and consumer activity. This is the real engine that propelled all this change and what best illuminates how things happened and why.

The oldest stories are on the bottom. Prior to 2005 you will also find links to notable articles on the topic from other souces. These are the articles with the publication date beside them. Some of these older links go to web sites that no longer exist. The good news is that if you find a URL link that is dead you can copy and paste the link into the Wayback machine , which is found on the homepage of Archive.org. Here the copies of the original articles are preserved forever.

One last note. Despite the fact that the MP3 in its name implies an audio only focus, MP3 Newswire always covered digital media as a whole and included video and film in its discourse. Our February 2002 article Online Movies, Taiwanese Law, and the American Film Industry is a great example of such early discourse.

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