this is an essay that describes the music industry and its foes the MP3.

The Music Industry and its Foe the MP3 Perhaps no other decade in history has contributed as much to the growth of the music industry as the 1990's, the digital decade. One thing that fascinates me is the Internet's power to innovate, create and distribute new ideas to millions of people around the globe. What am I talking about? MP3s. Although MP3 is not a new format it is the fastest growing file format …

…the rising trend of technology and regulate on those who do break laws on the Internet then there would be less of a problem. So is the MP3 trend going to change? I personally doubt it unless they can make a better quality sound format that takes up less space. As long as someone learns how to encode and decode music files onto CD's then there will always be a place for compressed audio files.