Or did it?
Music has always been with us, right from the beginning, since, I'm assuming, cave men could bang rocks together and make a lovely tune I'm sure.
But now in this day and age, is the CD which is classed as "New Media" now becoming old?
New Media is a term which changes constanly, defined by hundreds of different people and always open to interpretation, but in broad terms its media which can be accessed anytime, anywhere on any digital device.
So, once again, I assume a CD is classed as New Media.
The lovely Compact Disc (CD) was first made and introduced in the 1970's and business boomed from there. Or maybe right from when the BBC played a Bee Gees' album on Tomorrow's World.
Then about the time of the 1990s, a little thing we call the Internet began to pick up and by 1994, music in MP3 fomat was quickly spreading like wild fire.
Since early 2000s, the popularity of CD's has decreased dramatically, and even now MP3 popularity rises.
So Why?
Say, I buy a CD, the first CD I bought myself was My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, with my laptop, I 'rip' the CD's contents, A.K.A. copy the music onto my laptop so I can listen to it anytime, put it on any device I want, so I can then listen to it anywhere I want.
But what's stopping me from sending the MP3 files to my friend, who wants to listen to that album?
Nothing really, but they didn't buy it. And if they got the album from me, they won't have to.
Which is basically, what's happening. However, with strangers, across the internet. People I've never met before, putting music up on the Internet and myself going "Oh, I quite want to listen to that actually."
Thinking of it like that, I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this. Maybe I'm wired the wrong way because I'm not too sure that's wrong. Despite the fact it's classed as "Music Piracy".
Don't get me wrong, I still buy CD's, if one of my favourite artists brought out another album, I would buy it, so long as I had the money. If there was a single in the charts I wanted I would buy it.
Then I would rip it to my laptop and stick it on my phone and send it to my friend over Bluetooth, or my PSP and copy it to my PS3 via media sharing.
Sharing being the key word there.
Like how I could go onto youtube and listen to a tune there. More Sharing.
Then again..
Back in...hmmm...2008? Sometime around there, I had a birthday, and my friend got me a £25 iTunes voucher.
I'd never used iTunes in my life. I never had an iPod or anything like that so Windows Media Player served me just fine.
That and if I didn't go out and buy the CD, I would get the thing I wanted from someone from the internet who was very good at 'sharing' their things.
It wasn't till the start of this year, (2012, in case people have lost track), that I found something I actually wanted to buy with it.
I didn't have to.
But I did.
And that is the BBC's Sherlock Soundtrack. Cost me something like £7.99 but I had it and oh was I happy. Not sure if the same wave of happiness would have overtaken me had a downloaded it, but I guess I'll never find out.
But then I copied it to my PSP and my PS3, but not to my phone cause I've lost the wire.
Then I bought the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Soundtrack.
But then I copied it to my PSP and my PS3, but not to my phone cause I've still not found the wire.
And yesterday, 28th of February, Sherlock's second series' soundtrack came out, so I bought that.
And then I copied- nah I oly copied to my PS3 cause I couldn't be bothered to find to wire for my PSP or my phone, which I've deduced by now, I've left it at Home.
But I did send a few files of it to my mother and my boyfriend, because I was very excited and wanted to talk to someone about it and say how it made me feel and how I was sad for Irene Adler at this track and how I wanted to kill Sherlock at this track and the way it integrated these tracks, and how I was completely in LOVE with it.
They were bored within seconds but I digress.
Even now, I have it on a memory stick and I've stuck that stick into the computer at university and am listening to it as I type.
Is that wrong?
Did I lose out on not buying the CD?
Is anyone losing money?
Chances are, I would have gone to HMV and bought it, which would have cost me £8.99, so I saved myself a pound or so off each of them.
So overall...
I don't think anyone is really losing out.
I got my gorgeous music, as did a few friends and family, and I actually paid for it too.
Is the only reason why they hate this sharing because they lose out on money? Possibly. Maybe....Definitely.
So, I'm signing off now, and I will leave you with this.
It's a youtube video containing a majority of the music track "Sherlocked" from the BBC's Sherlock soundtrack. (See! It's been a day and it's up!)
It integrates Irene's Theme, a violin solo and The Women, her basic theme thoughout a A Scandal in Belgravia.
If you've seen it, you know it's where he's typing the code into her phone and where it goes quiet and builds up again is from the last scene where you find out what happens to Miss Adler.
Quite Easily my favourite peice of music from this Soundtrack.
If you've not seen BBC's Sherlock. Shame on you, it's brilliant. Go watchy.
Yeah I'm actually going now.
Bye~ and thank you for reading~
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