MP3′s Internet Hunt!

MP3 Internet Hunt

Directions: Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. Press and hold the Back button, in the menu bar of your browser, to return to this page. Notice how it lists all the pages you have visited backwards. Use Go to jump back many pages without clicking the Back button over and over and over.

Useful Shortcuts:  CTRL+F: Find something on the page.
Copy and Paste the questions in a new Word document.

1. What does MP3 technology do to the data in a music file?

Why?

2. What does your computer’s sound card do?

3. What does a compression program do?

5. You tell your Uncle Fabian that you plan to burn a cd today. He orders you to do it outside because he does not want the smoke in the house. Use this information to write a note to explain what burning a cd is.

6. List 3 consequences of music piracy.

7. You should know that most books are copyrighted. List 5 other works that are protected by copyrights.

8. Swarming is revolutionizing the challenges of transferring large files over the Internet. Explain.

10. What is the Math behind CDs?

Think About It – Your band burns a CD of songs that each of you has written. You are selling them for $10 each. Your goal is to raise enough money to go to NYC and audition with a record company. You discover that someone in a neighboring town’s school has uploaded all your songs onto the Internet. They say your songs have been downloaded more than a hundred times.

Are they right or wrong for doing this? Explain.