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Technology Stocks : mp3.com prepares to rock Wall Street -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (35)	6/5/1999 9:38:00 AM
From: Jeff Harrington	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64

If people could get any tune they wanted whenever they wanted it, they wouldn't care where they got it from, fixed media or net. The big problem is going to be creating the "every tune anytime" site and I think MP3.COM has a good jump on the competition. But there's no subscription plan in the works nor can I envision a smooth transition from free to subscription. And if any site can be a streaming MP3 site (and MP3's can be CD quality and streamed) with a Shoutcast server, it's going to be a bitch to get people to pay. It'll probably be a consortium that puts together deals from major artists and attempts to force encoding and encryption that puts it together. At that point MP3.COM could be left with just the indies like me and the 11,000 others... Jeff Harrington mp3.com