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Technology Stocks : Liquid Audio Inc - (Nasdaq- LQID) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chris land who wrote (284)	7/21/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 674

Some general observations and questions occur to me. 1) Since the stock started trading less thank 30 days ago, aren't we due to come into some selling pressure as the restrictions on insiders and other IPO restrictions ease. 2) In the history of consumer devices, are there any instances where a proprietary format has won out over an open format, particularly in the music business. I ask, because the answer to this question may determine the success of LQID versus MPPP. It seems the locks and protections benefit the music distributors more than consumers, and that may drive consumers to the more open format. (Note: I'm assuming here that LQID use a proprietary format for locking material, please correct me if this is not the case.) 3) Given the power of PC's and the ingenuity of crackers, how long can the LQID protection schemes survive before being cracked? (See #2 for assumptions.) 4) Do I really have to choose between a closed proprietary format solution with a good business model, versus an open format with no business model? P.