Well, I’m not going to sugar coat it. The MP3 format is more promiscuous than hooker in the Red Light districts of Luxembourg. I’d bet money on the fact that if you spin a bottle in a busy square, every single person you land on will have downloaded an MP3 at least once in their life.

I’ll admit that I’ve done it. A lot. I’m a broke college student I can’t afford to pay a dollar for every song that I want are you kidding me?! I digress.

The MP3 format has become so common in our day and age. It used to be all about the cassettes. Waiting by the radio and just waiting for that ONE song to come on and having to press record at just the right moment and pray it comes out okay. Then the CD was able to handle a lot more than the tape in a cassette and frankly, CDs are a lot easier to store. The age of computers introduced digital files of music, and the birth of the MP3 Player turned the format into one of the most common ones on earth. Not to mention it brought pirating music to a peak.

And by the way, I am not going to talk about the poor cats in the experiments. Not with my fluffy kitty, Angel, sitting next to me. I shall always attempt to get the words you said about the poor kitties out of my head.

To be honest, I could barely understand a word of this book. But I do get some general concepts from it. The MP3 was created by industry to distribute their music and to make profit, but now industries have taken a back seat. The format is now the #1 type for pirates to use. Yes I will say that I have quite a few MP3s on my computer and phone, and I may or may not have downloaded them during class while we were talking about copyright… but that’s besides the point. I’m getting really off topic in this blog post.

To summarize what I want to say, Sterne is right when he says that the MP3 is a promiscuous format in our modern times. They’re on every computer all over the world and by the second millions and millions more of these files are being shared and created. Whether this will be a problem in the future or not, we’ll just have to see.