There it is – the Teufel online store in 2007 #FollowYourSoundĪnyone who remembers the first laptop models knows that acoustics usually offered little more than underground beeping. By 2006, we had become Europe’s largest online provider, directly supplying fans of the good Berlin sound. In the 2000s the Teufel online store reached more and more fans. Teufel had been using this opportunity since 1997. The Internet connected people, offered a new shopping experience through online shopping and opened up new sales channels. The 2000s were a time of technical innovation. The intermediate step via MP3 is superfluous and physical storage media are almost superfluous. Today, music streaming is a matter of course thanks to smartphones, WIFI and better storage capacities. Music start-ups specializing in digital distribution such as SoundCloud (founded in 2007) had to overcome a few hurdles before the idea of a subscriber-based streaming service found its way into the Internet world. After all, record labels shouldn’t decide what music fans have to hear. On his website he said it was not surprising that music lovers bypass record companies. Supporters countered that Napster gave unknown artists and bands without a record contract a chance. The record labels branded Napster and his users as music pirates. Napster sparked a heated debate over copyright. The music exchanging platform that changed the world – Napster Napster vs copyright The free-of-charge exchange of music from hard disk to hard disk was of course not welcomed warmly by record labels. By the start of 2001, there were 80 million users. It meant users could obtain hard to get songs. The birth of music streamingįrom then on we could freely exchange our favourite music online via his platform and this was the begins of the Napster community. But again and again the university servers collapsed under the data load. Why not swap music digitally, instead of swap CDs? That was exactly the thought of 19 computer science student Shawn Fanning. The 1999 founded online changing powerful, Napster within a short time turned the music industry on its head.
The digital format seemed to end the rule of analogue audio format. Everybody was going crazy for the iPod MP3 and Napster changes the music worldĪt the start 2000s the CD audio format had a major competitor – the MP3. However, back then, the iPod nocked the Walkman off the top shelf. Technic Star 2003: Siemens M 50Īmongst this is the ipod that came out in October 2001 with a limited memory, which now in the time of online streaming services can only be laughed at.
With a not-so-smart phone suddenly people could do two things: make calls anywhere, and send short messages. The tech trends of 2000 saw phones, notebooks and mp3 players take centre stage.
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