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The trading of MP3's or digital music over the Internet is all ways going to be prevalent
part of the music industry, and is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the
piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are
losing due to MP3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in
court with copyright suits. Quinlan states " Although downloading music over the Internet and
playing it back on computer or portable digital music players has become increasingly popular,
major record labels have been slow to embrace distribution over the Web because of the difficultly
in preventing unauthorized – and unpaid – copying of songs."

THE MP3 FORMAT:
MP3 is a file format which compresses audio files to efficiently store the audio data in files
that can be easily downloaded on the Internet. MP3 files are identified by the file extension
MP3 and require specialized......

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