Not talking about any statistics in particular, but a general consent would agree that music piracy began a very long time. I ran across an article on A Little History on Music Piracy, and it got me to think what has the Internet done to help fight this problem. Not to dispute who is right or who is wrong, but to find an alternative for music lovers.
I came across Pandora sometime back and loved the idea of free music streaming from my browser or my Blackberry. The idea is to be able to listen to your favorite artists and similar music related to that genre. As I researched more into this, I found that there are many sites on the world wide web which cater to this audience in need. Each site was evaluated for it’s usability and design for the end user.
Pandora
One of the most well-known music streaming site, Pandora uses Flash to implement the layout and functionality of their radio streams. Choose an artist and Pandora will do the rest for you by playing similar artists in that genre of music.
The Pandora website has a clean blue, silver, and greys color scheme and uses advertisements in it's web page by implementing different ads which show to the right of the player screen. At a song change, the ad changes to another. Very clean integration of the ad, as it catches the user's eye and at the same time, keeps it away from it's main purpose. You can make as many different radio stations as you like by simply entering your favorite artist.
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