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To: JimC1997 who wrote (5955)	6/18/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: chris431	Respond to of 18366

Vital Signs - MP3 and Digital Distribution P.14, July, 1999 issue of PC Computing (contains 3 graphs) zdnet.com OR pasted in full: Slow Tunes Does downloading music from the Web make you want to scream? You're not alone. Three quarters of us will call it quits in 30 minutes or less. Stay tuned: Forrester Research predicts that by 2003, 22 million households will be downloading music much faster. With portable digital music devices becoming available for $50 or less--and connections getting faster--promotional tracks will take less than a minute to download. Entire albums will be yours in just 10 minutes, barely enough time to dust off your old CD collection. Indie Invasion Variety is the spice of life when it comes to MP3 music. Small, independent labels such as spinArt and Rykodisc dominate the music download scene, with compilation albums topping the download charts. Larger record labels are steering clear until they believe security is up and piracy down; the Secure Digital Music Initiative is one group of technology companies trying to develop an architecture for digital music security. Meanwhile, Public Enemy recently became the first major group to release a full-length album online. Sound of Music No wonder consumers are leery of downloading music online: 64 percent think they have to listen to the files on tinny PC speakers that pop and hiss worse than AM radio. So for now, they continue to order CDs from Web sites. But as bandwidth increases and consumers learn more about products like the Diamond Rio, which lets you bring MP3 music on the road, downloading will take root. Look ahead: The future of music on the Web keeps sounding better.