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The market on music for download has now entered its second decade if its beginning is to be pegged to the emergence of Napster, a file-sharing system that gained prominence sometime during the year 2000. Prior to Napster, there was also another system which offers free songs for downloading—the Internet Underground Music Archive or IUMA. This online music archive was set up in 1993 by University of California`s Jon Luini, Jeff Patterson, and Rob Lord. Nonetheless, it was Napster which created a major impact on the Internet during its heydays between 1999 and 2001. This web-based file sharing system was devised by a Northeastern University student in Boston—Shawn Fanning—to enable easy sharing of MP3 files. The spread in the use of Napster was astounding, a popularity that led to the system`s own demise.
In a manner of saying, Napster music for download may have become a victim of its own success. This file sharing system enabled Internet users to bypass the traditional music outlets and exchange digital music files for free; substantial selling opportunities for the music industry were lost. Naturally, those in the music recording business, particularly record labels, protested that the Napster system instigated copyright infringement on a massive scale. Consequently, a court order shut down Fanning`s system. Nevertheless, the legacy of Napster remains up to today. Its franchise has been sold and converted into an online music store operating in the same Napster banner that has become a familiar icon on music for download.
The footsteps taken by Napster as an online music shop is the same territory for other Internet-based resources like iTunes Store, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Kazaa, and Zune MarketPlace. The most successful among these at present is iTunes Store which boasts of an archive of more than 12 million songs. Operating under the aegis of Apple Inc., this online music shop is the top music seller in the U.S., having dislodged Wal-Mart which formerly owned this distinction. Aside from the U.S. market, the music downloading services of iTunes Store is likewise available in Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and in some parts of Europe. A new milestone was chalked up by iTunes Store early this 2010 when it sold its 10 billionth song through its Internet-based facility. On a worldwide basis, this web-based music shop is considered as the top retailer of legal music downloads, accounting for 70 percent of online digital music sales worldwide.
In terms of worldwide access on music for download, the website DownloadAnySong can very well stand side by side with these more established online shops. This site, accessible through its link below this article, has more than one billion songs available for download. It has a linkage to a peer-to-peer file-sharing system reminiscent of the extent that Napster had established before among Internet users all over the world. And there`s more in DownloadAnySong. Its available materials for download not only include songs and music but also movies, TV shows, and computer games, making it a one-stop shop in online shopping for digital media entertainment.