Like any other corner of technology, the MP3 has its own storied history.
Compression is the process in which files are made smaller or larger to be used by a computer.
The MPEG-1 was hatched as the definitive standard in audio and video coding. Unfortunately, MPEG didn t realize the implications that this new technology would run into with copyright law. At this time the Internet was in its infancy, serving as the missing ingredient that would make distribution of pirated material easily accessible. The MP3 is just a more advanced version of the MPEG-1. The whole distribution of the pirated music mimics the process of mitosis, in which the parent cell eventually becomes an entire legion replicated on the original.