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# A Techie Provides His View Of The State If The Music Industry
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/a_techie_provid/
- Published: 2006-02-22T09:56:25.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-22T09:56:25.000Z
- Description: According to Gene Koprowski of Tech World News "digital downloads have replaced the single and iPods are the new turntables". For a somewhat interesting if narrow perspective of the music. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/02/a_techie_provid.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

According to Gene Koprowski of Tech World News "digital downloads have

[![Ipod2_14](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/ipod2_14.jpg "Ipod2_14")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ipod2%5F14.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

replaced the single and iPods are the new turntables". For a somewhat interesting if narrow perspective of the music industry through a techie’s eyes [check it out](http://www.technewsworld.com/story/cDuhjNxfV8NRQw/MP3s-The-New-45-Singles-of-the-Music-Business.xhtml?ref=hypebot.com).

> *"…because of digital downloading technology and the Internet, the single is making a smashing comeback. For example, a wacky song called "Laffy Taffy" by the Atlanta rap group D4L was first thought to be a novelty song, and nothing more, by music producers.*  
>  
> *It turns out, however, that the song has been downloaded — for a fee — more than 700,000 times from iTunes, Yahoo Music and other online music stores…"*