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To: Binx Bolling who wrote (9505)	3/7/2000 6:38:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Binx and Thread, The growth of the Internet audio market is just astounding... I really enjoyed the Napster link you posted, Binx. This is a very interesting article that was linked over on the Silicon Investor site. I think the music industry is going to have to rethink how they do business and begin to offer better value to the consumer either by facilitating non-restrictive downloads of hit singles at a fair price or by increasing the appeal of CD's. I bought a Shery Crow CD this weekend and their is actually an interactive PC interface on the diskette. Now just throw in a music video or two or three and decrease the cost by 50% to the consumer and they are back in business. nytimes.com "One of the fastest ways to turn potential customers off is to say they're all a bunch of thieves," said Pam Samuelson, a copyright law expert at the University of California at Berkeley. "You start hating your customers and your customers are going to start hating you back, and that doesn't bode well for your ability to attract them to buy more stuff from you. It makes them more inclined to infringe rather than buy." Ausdauer