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Today, I will be informing you about the effect iPods have on the CD industry. Most of us have iPods or MP3 players instead of CDs. iPods have drastically impacted the entertainment industry. They're convenient, portable, and overall just don't come with the hassle of traditional CD players. With an iPod, everything can be purchased and downloaded on the Internet. CD's can only play about 15 normal length songs. An iPod or MP3 can hold many different artists and a large variety of songs. This is very useful because when we want to listen to another song, we can go to a menu and select the song or new artist. With a CD and CD player, people would have to change out the CD and click "fast forward" to get to a certain song. An iPod and MP3 also might have the feature to play videos and games. There is more entertainment on iPods and MP3 players than a CD player. However, now that people have iPods, CD sales are dropping, because they buy music off the Internet or go to one of those free music sharing sites. Also, selling CDs with 15 songs for $15 might be in the past, because some companies and labels might have to keep focusing on single song sales for $1. This effect will definitely hurt music sales because if more people want single songs, but not the whole album, then sooner or later, no one is going to want CD's that much, anymore. The number of people that buy CD's and listen to the radio are down. Music sales are decreasing. Another thing, I'd like to talk about is pirating. Now, "what is pirating?" you might ask. Pirating is when people take new or old songs that aren't out yet and put them on those music sharing sites or something. This too, is affecting the CD industry and music sales. Because you have to BUY albums, people would rather use a sharing site. Or they may want to discover or sample music, but do it at no cost, so to them the most straight-forward way of doing this, is through file sharing networks.Music artists get 1 to 10% of the total music sales, while labels are filling their pockets, which may also be another reason why people use sharing networks. Sites where consumers have instant access to music are the future. The Internet has freed music so people can get it without paying. Copyright is the only barrier that stands between music artists and fans. These facts have shown that CDs are no longer needed. It is still nice to have them, because people can upload them onto computers and have them put on iPods for their entertainment but people don't crave them because of the developed Internet. Since illegal downloads have been discovered, there is no stopping people from getting free music and listening to it at no cost.

Public Comments

1. all is well, however, try and be unique with the pronounciation of the words whilst deliverin ur speech. BEST OF LUCK
2. Well, I am pretty good in English class so i may be of some help. I think that it has good structure to it. It seems like a very good debate or discussion. You did mess up a couple times though: 1. This too, is affecting the CD industry and music sales. Because you have to BUY albums, people would rather use a sharing site. Or they may want to discover or sample music, but do it at no cost, so to them the most straight-forward way of doing this, is through file sharing networks. (You might want to shorten it and change some of the grammar errors.) 2. Pirating is when people take new or old songs that aren't out yet and put them on those music sharing sites or something. (Get rid of the "those" and the "or something.") There might be more that I am missing but thats all that i thought was messed up.
3. Not bad but you should indent and use the word cd less often.