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by Philipp Steger
Dear reader,
When Thomas Edison spoke the words "Mary had a
little lamb" on his tin foil phonograph, the world had good reason to be
awestruck. Finally, the basic technology required to reproduce recorded
sound had arrived. Over time the technology has improved and become so
ubiquitous that today hardly anyone would stand in awe of a simple
voice recording. What deserves our attention, however, is the ease with
which such a recording can today be distributed to any Internet user
around the world at virtually no distribution cost. This has given rise
to yet other technologies trying to capitalize on the opportunities
inherent in this change. One of them, probably the one with the most
profound impact, is embodied by the iPod, introduced by Apple in 2001.
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