Listening to music online is one of the most addicting thing in this world. Music has the power to unite all generations and make the world stop for a moment.
I got to read an interesting article that reminded me of how listening to music online started, and how it made a big impact both on the music industry, the availability of music, and even the growth of p2p and music sharing technology. I remembered how people went crazy over p2p programs like Napster, but for some issues of legalities, Napster was brought down. However, other psp file sharing programs like Kazaa and Limewire has emerged, and came along other programs of the like. People enjoyed downloading free music which was good while it lasted.
Later on this practice became a disadvantage rather than an advantage due to the adwares, spywares and viruses that are either attached or camouflaged as music files. It also becamse a gateway for hackers and the like, to carry out their plans of stealing information from end-users. These problems opened the eyes of people to stick to buying safe downloads directly from the licensed music stores like iTunes, etc.
Online music also opened opportunities for independent artists and musicians, who do not have the funds and machinery to produce their own records, but are still able to reach out to the rest of the world.
The availability of downloadable music minus the media such as discs, and tapes during the previous generations, made quality music even more affordable for everyone to buy digitally.

