Jim,
I have to say I'm having a blast trying to locate and download songs. The problem, now, is that it takes about 1 hour to find a song to download. Most of the sites are no good, or have partial songs, or bootleg songs that are terrible to listen to. It takes a lot of patience. It won't be truly useful until it becomes legitimized and readily available.
Inevitably, the music industry will have to deal with this. I assume they would license Amazon type entities to download complete, legitimate songs and entire albums. Amazon would keep track of how much is downloaded, and the labels would keep a percentage. After music, and when the bandwidth exists, DVDs would be next.
For now, however, it is just a gimmick, but one with tremendous potential. The winamp.com player is way cool, by the way.
As for the T1 cost, it is too much, and I had not really noticed a great utility for the thing except for downloading software and, now, music.
Gary Korn
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