Music in the Digital Age: Downloading, Streaming and Digital Lending

Abstract

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News, "How the CD Was Developed," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6950933.stm (accessed March 16, 2010). 2 "Philips' plan for a CD with a 11.5cm diameter had to be changed when Sony insisted that a disc must hold all of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The longest recording of the symphony in record label Polygram's archive was 74 minutes and so the CD size was increased to 12cm diameter to accommodate the extra data." British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News, "How the CD Was Developed," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6950933.stm (accessed March 16, 2010).

“Beyond the Clouds”: Insider Perceptions on the Transmutation of Terrestrial Radio in Canada

“…Ala-Fossi et al (2008) note that the "infiltration of radio-like services into practically every new delivery platform can be seen as an evidence of 'virus-like' capability of transformation and proof of the vitality or polymorphic radio media" (p.7). These services allow consumers to stream music, often for free, in a personalized on-demand fashion via connection to the Internet (Mason & Wiercinski., 2010, Knowles, 2007. The presence of new radio-like streaming services shake up traditional definitions of radio that have remained contested, but crystallized over the last eighty years.…”