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To: Gottfried who wrote (4193)	11/16/1998 6:18:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

The music industry better be careful. MP3 could hit them hard in the pocket book. With near quality CD sound and software that can convert a complete CD to MP3 format in 10 minutes, the store bought CD could be obsolete. There are thousands of songs available on the Internet for download, FREE. Some are illegal, as you are infringing on copyright, but the underground MP3 factories are ripping new MP3's every minute. There is also software available to burn your downloaded MP3 songs on a CD and listen to it in any CD player. Some MP3 Sites: dmusic.com members.xoom.com musicglobalnetwork.com The record companies have to give the consumer more, customization, better price, etc. MP3 is going to hurt the recording industry BIG TIME unless they jump on the bandwagon. Here are some that are trying to deliver music in a new way: Liquid Audio: liquidaudio.com (Check for an Anouncement about Iomega) AT&T is trying, check it out: a2bmusic.com The problem with these last two sites, they NEED big names to draw the people in. If they FAIL, MP3 will CHANGE the face of the recording indusrty as we know it. Billions of dollars at stake here, BILLIONS.

To: Gottfried who wrote (4193)	11/16/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

HUGE CD-RW and DVD NEWS! biz.yahoo.com *CD-RW and DVD+RW Industry Leaders Unfold Roadmap for Data Interchange* ''The phenomenal success of CD-RW is a direct result of its ability to create 650 MB discs that work in hundreds of millions of CD and DVD readers,'' said Mikel Dodd, president of Philips Optical Storage. ''CD-RW is poised to become the unchallenged solution for universal data interchange in both computer and entertainment environments, and is the platform of choice to take data, audio and video content from one domain to the other.'' Worldwide CD-RW markets are expected to grow from 2.5 million drives in 1997 to more than 15 million units in 1999, according to data supplied by Philips Electronics. CD-RW is the future. Zip (in any of its flavors) is an expensive dinosaur with only 5% penetration of the computer market. Why distribute ANYTHING on it? Distribute on CD and have near 100% compatibilty!