Despite that downfall, there are still so many people getting hooked up to MP3's. It is accused of unauthorized downloading of sound recordings from Internet sites. Downloading even one song onto a PC is piracy, even if it is not resold. They are often reproduced and replayed without the permission of the artists. Piracy really hurts retailers and distributors because their prices cannot compete with the illegal downloading of MP3 music.
Less business means fewer jobs.
For these reasons certain companies are trying desperately to prevent illegal distribution and copyright infringment. It creats your personal CD and lets you listen anywhere you can play one. This allows you to use other programs while listening to your MP3 without the skips, stutters, or slowdowns of a software only program. These are all software programs. These are all progams for hardware.