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To: orkrious who wrote (14727)	9/11/2000 3:17:25 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

In response to that Street.com music article, I believe the Major Labels will survive and thrive, at the expense of smaller acts. Labels have already greatly trimmed down the roster of musicians they keep signed, and this will continue until each label has only a few Britney Spears-type acts and put their ENTIRE marketing muscle behind. These very few acts will be very profitable and get very rich, at the expense of the smaller acts and acts that aren't on labels. I beleive the whole mp3 music phenomenon hurts all but the top-tier music acts. Rest assured, all the talk about Major Labels dying off is a load of hogwash. They will endure just as they have always down. The object of these lawsuits against Napster, mp3.com, Scour, etc etc is not to try and totally stop pirated mp3 music. It is to make it NOT OPEN FOR PROFIT by another company. The object is to make the effort of tracking down and downloading mp3 music greater than actually going out and buying the CD or downloading it off Warner Bros.s'own site, where you know access will be easy. The problem for musicians is that these "Subscription" and "free" music proposed schemes treats music as if it were an interchangable pure-commodity item, which it is not. For instance, why is the bane of Napster, Metallica so popular? The reason is that their many fans think their music kicks ass and is heads and shoulders above anything else. Joe Blow's Metal Manic Explosion from Hackensack, NJ (available for free on Mp3.com)doesn't fit the bill. The fallout from the Mp3 phenom is that the really annoying acts like Britney Spears, Backstreet, etc ,etc will only get bigger and even more promoted, and more adventurous music will fade off of the major labels altogether. These music acts will never be able to achieve the same success if they aren't on a Major.