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To: Jon Stept who wrote (8949)	1/5/2000 1:57:00 PM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Jon - Re: Are they motivated to change distirbution to the internet, spend all that money or will they continue to distribute via retail/catalog/internet stores? Is there cost savings on distribution for them when they cut out the stores? Or, will the internet music space really be useful when a company outside the cartel starts to own the music? When millions of people own devices that can download music from the internet, and when a secure way of doing that will insure payment of royalties, etc., then why wouldn't music (record) companies want to expand their market? A couple of days ago, US West announced a deal to make music available on the internet. I'm sure more of these deals will follow from other companies. biz.yahoo.com Betty

To: Jon Stept who wrote (8949)	1/5/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: RKHIII	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18366

Jon: Those same arguments/observations were made when the first 8-track and cassette players/recorders came out. The digital player is just another way to play music, and the internet is just another way to buy music. The only difference I see is that they are both digital-the way things are now (but won't be in ten years). I don't really believe content holders care about how it's distributed, just as long as they get their enormous cut. That's not going to change. But they will make their content available on whatever medium is hot at the time. Remember the reluctance to distribute content on CD? Or movies on DVD? Not anymore. I see distribution of content via the internet as a tremendous end to production costs. Of course, the cost to the consumer won't change. There's your profit incentive.