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IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community The British Computer Society, London, UK Start: 09:30
End: 17:30
Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK Start: 16:00
End: 17:30
The period from the advent of the compact disc in 1982 to the first significant file-sharing system in 1999 saw the greatest period of profitability in the history of recorded music. The decade since 1999 has seen an equally radical collapse. What seems obvious in hindsight was largely ignored at the time. The very efficiency of digital reproduction and distribution promised or threatened to eliminate scarcity, and hence threaten the possibility of market exchange in informational goods. | ||
