And so it begins…

For our group project, Sasha, Umut and I are going to be taking a look at the future of music downloading, more specifically, how it should be done and how it will be different from the music downloading of today. We are meeting tomorrow to bang out some more of the details, and also to create our proposal.

Music downloading is so messed up right now. You still have your teens and college kids downloading illegally, and then you have iTunes, selling high quality files but loaded with buzz-killing DRMs. There has to be a happy medium between the DRM movement and the illegal downloaders; something that consumers and producers can both agree on. Our project will find that medium…hopefully. (Just kidding! It will. I’m confident!)

Tomorrow’s agenda will consist of making a few final decisions as to the exact angle of our approach, deciding how work will be split, and also saving a few other dates for other milestones in our project. We are also going to do some group research, and gather more thoughts for our proposal. After tomorrow, I feel we’ll have a great jumping point to sail right into the project and masterfully tackle the topic of music downloading as it pertains to technology and the future.