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MP3 technology was the product of a team led by Karlheinz Brandenberg at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany .

In 1988 , they began work on a way to efficiently send audio down a plain old copper telephone wire, a medium that wasn’t capable of much bandwidth.

By carefully applying the theories of psychoacoustics — the idea that louder sounds mask quieter ones, thereby making the quieter ones inaudible.

The industry spent the next 15 years trying to adjust and adapt to the new digital realities.

In 1999 , the NHL ended its lockout, the Detroit Wings beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 -1 to end the lockout.

In 1999 the introduction of Napster on June 1, 1999 , everyone got into the act.

It's possible that the file-trading crisis would have been kicked further down the road for the recorded music industry.

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