Music IndustryThe music business is one of the few industries that has trouble growing profits in its transition to digital. The emergence of the Internet and new communication technologies has had an impact on consumers of music and the way in which music is consumed, but the industry is yet lacking the cultural capital to make a successful transition to a new business model in the information age (Freedman, 2003). The advent of digital technologies radically interrupts the nature of the Music Industry’s Traditional Value Chain, which particularly affects the music recording industry. For instance, the latest development of sales shows that global recorded music sales went down 15.4 % in 2008, which shown in Figure 1. Among the countries, the US market was seriously affected – with a decline of 31.2 % (IFPI, 2009).
As such, there is a need to develop a network to address the needs of the music industry and facilitate the growth of music music streaming. Digital means, but it also means offering services. These services are available via an iTunes store, which is a digital market as it is open and in demand. Digital consumers are often not aware of their iTunes store or how to navigate the iTunes Marketplace, nor their current or future iTunes subscription costs, but they can get an idea of the iTunes Marketplace’s and their availability through a mobile app (Deegerts et al., 2013). With mobile apps, they can be connected to a mobile phone, with a data connection, and they can be connected to the app via a mobile device. One use for the mobile app is to open it for a song to be played on the phone (i.e., through the Apple Music player, the Apple Music app is also accessible to people with their own cell phone). The users can also use iTunes as a music player by using an Apple app or from a mobile app (i.e., a mobile app using iTunes on their iPhone). iTunes allows for a range of services without an iTunes connection, and it features a variety of features, both for music streaming capabilities, in-app purchases and downloads, that provide some services and provide some services are also offered on mobile (Freedman et al., 2013). For instance, the iTunes Store is not merely an iPhone store, but one of Apple’s main competitors, with support for several operating platforms. Apple can provide services not available if there are insufficient iTunes store customers who have Apple’s own iOS device. Access and collection of music is also a major concern for many users, as it has become increasingly difficult for them to find music. Some of the most popular music downloads on iTunes are: Binge listening, which is the release of new episodes of your favorite show, or Pandora, which is the music player that your computer has and which lets you listen to the music for free from your device in the cloud. Although digital music is great for connecting to your mobile device, this is not always the best practice. There is a serious financial and financial risk associated with the use of this system. Consumers who are using apps and other means to access iTunes will pay for some iTunes services and do not deserve to pay that much in back taxes to iTunes and to the music companies they purchase their music from. Even if the price for these services is high in many markets, they cannot easily be bought from the iTunes storefront. However, many people choose to use digital services to find their music and for that reason an app makes its way to the App Store. Users will experience a lack of information when they log into a system and that makes it difficult for them to filter the information on their device. The same applies to a library system with a large library of music songs, which is often just sitting on the shelf under a computer in one location. The music library is very limited. There are many different formats (such as ZIPs) for recording music, but for many applications the amount of storage you can have would not be possible, for example there are a variety of formats that can only hold around 30 MB, for example there are mp3s which can hold as little
As such, there is a need to develop a network to address the needs of the music industry and facilitate the growth of music music streaming. Digital means, but it also means offering services. These services are available via an iTunes store, which is a digital market as it is open and in demand. Digital consumers are often not aware of their iTunes store or how to navigate the iTunes Marketplace, nor their current or future iTunes subscription costs, but they can get an idea of the iTunes Marketplace’s and their availability through a mobile app (Deegerts et al., 2013). With mobile apps, they can be connected to a mobile phone, with a data connection, and they can be connected to the app via a mobile device. One use for the mobile app is to open it for a song to be played on the phone (i.e., through the Apple Music player, the Apple Music app is also accessible to people with their own cell phone). The users can also use iTunes as a music player by using an Apple app or from a mobile app (i.e., a mobile app using iTunes on their iPhone). iTunes allows for a range of services without an iTunes connection, and it features a variety of features, both for music streaming capabilities, in-app purchases and downloads, that provide some services and provide some services are also offered on mobile (Freedman et al., 2013). For instance, the iTunes Store is not merely an iPhone store, but one of Apple’s main competitors, with support for several operating platforms. Apple can provide services not available if there are insufficient iTunes store customers who have Apple’s own iOS device. Access and collection of music is also a major concern for many users, as it has become increasingly difficult for them to find music. Some of the most popular music downloads on iTunes are: Binge listening, which is the release of new episodes of your favorite show, or Pandora, which is the music player that your computer has and which lets you listen to the music for free from your device in the cloud. Although digital music is great for connecting to your mobile device, this is not always the best practice. There is a serious financial and financial risk associated with the use of this system. Consumers who are using apps and other means to access iTunes will pay for some iTunes services and do not deserve to pay that much in back taxes to iTunes and to the music companies they purchase their music from. Even if the price for these services is high in many markets, they cannot easily be bought from the iTunes storefront. However, many people choose to use digital services to find their music and for that reason an app makes its way to the App Store. Users will experience a lack of information when they log into a system and that makes it difficult for them to filter the information on their device. The same applies to a library system with a large library of music songs, which is often just sitting on the shelf under a computer in one location. The music library is very limited. There are many different formats (such as ZIPs) for recording music, but for many applications the amount of storage you can have would not be possible, for example there are a variety of formats that can only hold around 30 MB, for example there are mp3s which can hold as little
As such, there is a need to develop a network to address the needs of the music industry and facilitate the growth of music music streaming. Digital means, but it also means offering services. These services are available via an iTunes store, which is a digital market as it is open and in demand. Digital consumers are often not aware of their iTunes store or how to navigate the iTunes Marketplace, nor their current or future iTunes subscription costs, but they can get an idea of the iTunes Marketplace’s and their availability through a mobile app (Deegerts et al., 2013). With mobile apps, they can be connected to a mobile phone, with a data connection, and they can be connected to the app via a mobile device. One use for the mobile app is to open it for a song to be played on the phone (i.e., through the Apple Music player, the Apple Music app is also accessible to people with their own cell phone). The users can also use iTunes as a music player by using an Apple app or from a mobile app (i.e., a mobile app using iTunes on their iPhone). iTunes allows for a range of services without an iTunes connection, and it features a variety of features, both for music streaming capabilities, in-app purchases and downloads, that provide some services and provide some services are also offered on mobile (Freedman et al., 2013). For instance, the iTunes Store is not merely an iPhone store, but one of Apple’s main competitors, with support for several operating platforms. Apple can provide services not available if there are insufficient iTunes store customers who have Apple’s own iOS device. Access and collection of music is also a major concern for many users, as it has become increasingly difficult for them to find music. Some of the most popular music downloads on iTunes are: Binge listening, which is the release of new episodes of your favorite show, or Pandora, which is the music player that your computer has and which lets you listen to the music for free from your device in the cloud. Although digital music is great for connecting to your mobile device, this is not always the best practice. There is a serious financial and financial risk associated with the use of this system. Consumers who are using apps and other means to access iTunes will pay for some iTunes services and do not deserve to pay that much in back taxes to iTunes and to the music companies they purchase their music from. Even if the price for these services is high in many markets, they cannot easily be bought from the iTunes storefront. However, many people choose to use digital services to find their music and for that reason an app makes its way to the App Store. Users will experience a lack of information when they log into a system and that makes it difficult for them to filter the information on their device. The same applies to a library system with a large library of music songs, which is often just sitting on the shelf under a computer in one location. The music library is very limited. There are many different formats (such as ZIPs) for recording music, but for many applications the amount of storage you can have would not be possible, for example there are a variety of formats that can only hold around 30 MB, for example there are mp3s which can hold as little
Figure 1: Recorded Music SalesThe technological developments nowadays are having a significant effect on the role of the major record labels in the music industry. The most rapidly growing form of piracy to affect music sales at the present time has been the unauthorised exchange of music via the internet. Internet piracy simply involves making databases of music files available on the word-wide web for immediate download by consumers, without payment to the rightsholders whose material is being used and without their permission. Internet newsgroups and chat rooms may be involved in serial uploading or downloading of music material, and many sites have been established offering links to sources of infringing material. One of the most prominent avenues for obtaining unauthorised access to music on the internet has been via Napster, which at its height was trading some 2.8 billion songs per month. The hard work that done by the record industry to initiate the litigation against high-volume internet pirates can only able to prevent or charge a part of the internet pirates. As a result, the recording industry’s capacity to continue to exert the market power that