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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (1097)	3/23/2001 4:29:09 AM
From: cAPSLOCK	Respond to of 1116

Seems to me that the whole thing will boil down to what the 'industry' is going to want to do with them. MP3.com is a well positioned portal. But if the recording industry wants to destroy them they can. They will either destroy them or make them. Here is a fact: Music (along with other media, but especially music) is going to be delivered by the net in large in the near future. The stereo in your car, and in yourhome along with your computer will 'tune in' to download and stream music from the net. Imagine if radio mated with a jukebox. This IS what we will have. Her is another fact: The public WILL NOT ACCEPT the sorts of formats (fingerprinted, watermarked whatever) that the industry wants to use. They WILL continue to use OPEN, FREE, non encrypted compressed audio formats. This means they will use mp3 and its decendants. These two facts provide a compelling reason for the record industry to cooperate (haha or just co-op) with mp3.com. I agree with you Anthony that the subscriber model alone will not do it for mp3.com. And I am dubious of their other options. But I do beleive there are some. regards, cAPSLOCK (An mp3.com artist ;) mp3.com

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (1097)	3/24/2001 12:18:51 PM
From: Benjamin Ostrom	Respond to of 1116

From MP3.com's Feb press release on key metrics Monthly Data December January 2000 2001 Est. Average Daily Unique Visitors 825,000 830,000 Est. Pageviews Per Month 167,000,000 168,000,000 Number of Listens 52,700,000 56,500,000 Most of these are free. But they have other subscribers, ie their artist community which they are charging fees beginning this year, plus new communities, such as in-store licences. While except for the artists, all of these are nascent, including premium, I note that it seems like every month there's a new subscriber community of some sort added. Then there is international... If you visit their site regularly, there are more non-dot com advertisers there, particularly luxury goods- Sepora, Ford, recently Tag Heurer. I wonder if they have done research on the listener base and determined that they are early adapters with higher incomes. Can they segment banner ads based on subscriber profile? Interesting concept. All in all, the penetration of MP3 reminds me of AOL. it's a media company, not a dot com. And at these prices, MP3 is a steal IMO and I agree with MP3.com's cooperative attitude to the industry. It's model is very valuable for the future. Sincerely, Ben

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (1097)	4/12/2001 9:02:23 AM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1116

Report: MP3 Music Format Under Pressure From Microsoft, Others Reuters NEW YORK (April 12) - MP3, a popular format for downloading music from the Web, is under pressure from leading technology companies such as Microsoft Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Thursday. Microsoft and Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc. are working to subtly wean consumers away from MP3 technology, encouraging them to use proprietary software formats instead, the Journal said. The technology companies, which have the music industry's blessing, are encouraging those who download music to use new proprietary software formats that make the audio sound significantly better but also make it harder to share copyright-protected songs, the paper said. Microsoft, for example, plans to severely limit the quality of music that can be recorded as an MP3 file using software built into the next version of its personal-computer operating system, Windows XP, according to the report. Music recorded in the Redmond, Wash., software company's own format, called Windows Media Audio, will sound clearer and require far less storage space on a computer, the paper said. Other formats gaining popularity are based on the relatively new Advanced Audio Codec created by AT&T Corp. of New York, Dolby Laboratories Inc. of San Francisco, Sony Corp. of Japan, and the Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen in Germany, the paper said. MP3 is the format used to by controversial Internet music-sharing service Napster, whose operations have delighted consumers happy to access free music but infuriated the record industry. 03:05 04-12-01