1. The Music Industry's Influence on P2P File Sharing
After developing the technology to compress the music files, the Frauenhofer Institute invented the first device to play back MP3 files. ... The openness of the technology enabled anyone with computer programming experience to develop players and other cool MP3 software. ... At the same time the MP3 technology was developing, other proprietary audio formats were being released by big companies such as Yamaha, Lucent and Microsoft. ... A new technology "developed exclusively for the MP3 market "emerged in 1999. ... Napster was developed as a peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. ...
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