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Digital media encompasses digital text, digital images, digital audio, digital video, the world wide web and other technologies that can be used to create and distribute digital content.
Digital media represents a profound change from all previous media technologies. The production of digital media is cheaper and more flexible than that of analog media, and the end result can be reproduced indefinitely without any loss of quality.
Furthermore, digital content can be combined to make new forms of content. The first signs of this are visible in the use of techniques such as sampling and remixing in the music industry.
Digital media technologies have serious implications for companies that distribute content through physical media. The rise of the internet has allowed digital media files to be copied in unlimited quantities at very little cost; file sharing software has automated this process.
This presents problems for companies involved in media creation, processing, marketing and delivery, such as the record and entertainment industries. Their current approach is to try to use copyright law, together with draconian new laws such as DMCA to suppress these new technologies, in effect criminalizing their users.
Implementing restrictions on digital media to defend the entertainment industry would create serious problems for the communications and computer industries, which are being driven, in part, by the demand for digital media. Further, many feel the introduction of laws such as DMCA is an attack upon the concept of free speech.
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