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To: L.J. Hoffman who wrote (26023)	11/15/1998 11:47:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

From TMF: "Amazon's moat is the lack of profit. If you have some experience of handling small orders without a mechanical way to pack and ship, there is little opportunity for scale up. So the expense will grow with the renveue growth. Unless AMZN raise price or come up with a mechanical order filling system, it may go bankrupt before it can show a profit." boards.fool.com

To: L.J. Hoffman who wrote (26023)	11/15/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The music and broadcast industries are trying to prevent digital recording devices from being able to record off the net. Those efforts will probably prove to be impossible. One problem is that although one device or compression scheme might be able to be prevented, other ones will proliferate in their place. MP3 compression/recording standard could easily be replaced by "BL3" - "BootLeg3" a hypothetical standard developed among techno savy users. Once someone writes the compression and interface editors and drivers and throws them up on the Internet as free shareware, the proliferation would be quick (in the event of effective regulation of MP3). There is just no practical way to stop it.