i-pod generation - topic of interest

Commodities – what is people’s most prized possession? Most people’s possession is often a material thing, such as I-pod or mobile phones.

Possession – as in who owns peer to peer files – some people buy the files then they are passed around to other people, often the music files are broken up and different sections are downloaded from different sources.

The internet is fast becoming the place where people discover new music, a lot of recent artists are now releasing there music first on the internet, where many people download their music. This means that most people have heard of bands before they even release their first song. Is this the way forward for music? It seems that way as now we have a download chart as well as the normal music chart, this shows that downloads are been recognized as the real chart of the latest music.