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To: rudedog who wrote (50460)	10/3/2000 12:43:53 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

Yeah, my amazement is that this has come down (pervasively) to low bandwidth HS kids. She's not a PC fan and doesn't own one. She'd sure the hell be all over a CD burner 'internet appliance' though. --- She didn't even blink -- 'it's just music'. --- You'd be amazed at what luddites the majors (record cos) are. I could go off on the RIAA and Sony and Universal, etc for hours. I saw this coming 10 years ago, but I always thought the record companies would be on top of it (ie, downloading music from the record label's 'BBS' or something) cutting out the distribution costs. They were in complete denial over all of this as recently as two years ago. I'll tell you though, it couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people. --- With virtually the entire back catalog already outta the bag (and ripped onto MP3), I have a hard time seeing how they'll pull off a working revenue model. --- They shoulda put T1 drops, metered download appliances and CD burners in every record store two years ago. --- Oh well, the good news is that there's gonna be a lot more music from a lot more places. The 'guitar hero' (Peter Frampton, Bill Gates, etc), is becoming as yesterday as Milli Vanilli. -JCJ