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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (47394)	8/1/2000 12:08:44 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 63513

How to make sure that all of the interested parties get paid is the more interesting problem. They have a system for paying everybody whose songs are played on the radio. It seems to me that the record keeping for who gets paid based on downloads would be easily accomplished through software administered by the artists' association. The hard part is stamping out the renegade sites so that the record industry can offer us music, track by track, that we actually want. I think if we could buy albums by downloading tracks we like, sales would actually go up because people would feel less ripped off. But allowing Napster to circumvent the artists' rights altogether can't be allowed to continue IMO. Not an easy one.