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Re: selling music



There were some political, anti-Internet download
>statements, and some associated artist's rights innuendos.  One industry
>spokesman apparently said it's deregulation of radio that's led to the
>current unhappy situation--only the most mainstream fare makes it onto the
>airwaves.

I barely watched the Grammys (I have no faith in awards shows anymore) but I 
did see the whole MP3 speech. They had 3 college kids try to download as 
many songs as they could off the internet as possible and they downloaded 
over 6,000 songs in just 3 days. (At which point a large cheer arose from 
the cheap seats way back in the rear of the auditorium)

If every MP3 was an average of 5MB they downloaded approx 30 gig of MP3's.  
That's pretty impressive for three days worth considering over the past few 
years I've only downloaded enough MP3's to fill up one CD (750 MB). Then 
again this is only through a dial-up 56k connection I assume these people 
were on T-1 lines or something.

I think thier making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill here considering 
maybe %20 of all users are on high speed connections. The rest are most 
likely stuck with dial-up access.

But I don't see this as anything new. Music as been coppied and passed on 
forever.  What are they going to do when satalite radio really catches on 
and it's music on demand where you can hear whoever you want whenever you 
want instantly?

What will become of the hundreds of clear channel radio stations then?

Then again why should I even bother to download or copy the latest Creed 
song? Their played on the radio enough anyways.

Maybe Creed should sue Clear Channel for the millions of dollars in lost CD 
sales becasue the radio stations play thier songs so much.

I'm starting to rant now so I'll just leave it at that :)

Brian Wright
http://www.wright-onthe-web.com



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