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Technology Stocks : mp3.com prepares to rock Wall Street
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To: ArtsCool who wrote (34)6/4/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson  Read Replies (1) of 64
 
The T1 isn't the problem - an album would take less than five minutes to download if the system serving the album and the connections along the way were perfect. The real problem is the psychology of selling. I think mp3.com is wisely including artist graphics and other doodads with the albums they sell and physically ship as a CD. Early adopters might be willing to pay money to put music on their hard disk. However, I think the wider public will only be won over to paying for digital distribution with some sort of subscription based model which might include streaming and perpetual storage.

If you're interested in how the future of personal digital storage might unfold beyond music check the ememories.com thread and the other services the article I stole for the introduction presents.
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