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To: xstuckey who wrote (123491)	12/20/2000 4:02:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Xstucky, RE:"Programs like Napster and Scour (as well as Aimster and Gnutella) held out hope that boxmakers might halt the slide in their growth rates. If only the recording industry hadn't litigated these peering start-ups to death, they may very well have provided that desperately needed "great reason to buy a new computer."" Great article. I hate to keep beating the "Litigation" drum but it's real, very real. Costs GNP over 10% a year. MP3 encoding/decoding requires a Pentium or better. FPU is very important. Scour and Napsters demise definitly didn't help the upgrade cycle. Lawyers again, what can I say... Jim