The music industry

Production:
Advance in technology
User band production
No reliance on record company
Musical expertise not needed
Cost no longer an issue - prosumer software

Distribution:
Internet as primary medium, web 2 population of users
Can be free, largely accesed
Not legal in most places through file sharing
Maiking physical formats obsolete (tapes, cds) impacts on retail outlets
Difficult to track and moniter
Industry forced to think of new ways of marketing in keeping with interactive nature of distribution


Consumption:
Follows trends of using new media technologies, eg youtube
Linked to image more specificly through visual media
Saturated and diluted exp of accessing music

Four main companies:
Sony
Warner Brothers
Universal
UMI

Music Industry & tech:
Portable hardware is a key factor
1980 ompact ect
1990 Portable Cd's
1997 Mp3
1999 Napstar Shaun fannin
Copyright
Battle between consumption & portable
2000 broadband
2005 Ipod shuffle
Vertical intergration, blurs the lines between p c & d