Word: downloading
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...Some labels (they're reluctant to identify themselves) hire professional counterhackers, companies like Overpeer, based in Manhattan, that specialize in electronic countermeasures such as "spoofing"--releasing dummy versions of popular songs onto file-sharing networks. To your average Kazaa user they look like the real thing, but when you download them, they turn out to be unplayable. Movie studios, meanwhile, staff screenings with ushers wearing night-vision goggles to suss out would-be pirates with camcorders. When Epic Records distributed review copies of the new Pearl Jam album last fall, it sent them inside CD players that had been glued...
...these services face competition you wouldn't wish on Bill Gates. Unlike, say, Kazaa, they have to clear each song or movie or show for digital distribution with each individual artist and studio. They have made significant progress--Pressplay, for example, has upwards of 300,000 tracks available for download, with membership starting at $9.95 a month--but it's slow work. The for-pay services also mire users in a mesh of restrictions that limit what they can do with the music they download. That $9.95 plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move...
...after the show. Hollywood would also take a hit. People might still pay to watch movies in the theater--viewing on the big screen beats watching movies on your computer--but Hollywood would have to do without revenue from video stores. Who's going to rent what they can download for free? TV studios would likewise have to do without their cushy syndication deals, since the Net would become the land of infinite reruns. Hope you like product placement--you'll be seeing a lot of it. Already this July the WB network and Pepsi plan to launch an American...
...Well, like the former President said, I am not a crook. I've never stolen anything--anything, that is, besides music. But I confess to being an unrepentant ex-Napsterite, now a LimeWire artist. I can find almost any tune online. I download songs to my computer and then off-load them to my MP3 player or burn them onto CDs to play in my car. Like tens of millions of others, I don't consider myself particularly immoral...
...folks blithely steal music? For me, it started with Napster. I was desperate to hear an old Loudon Wainwright III tune that hadn't yet been rereleased on CD. I found it one day online--someone had converted the entire record into MP3s and kindly uploaded the songs. I downloaded the tune and then helped myself to a rare Duane Allman rendition of Please Be with Me. I had begun my descent into hell, or wherever it is that music pilferers go at the Final Download. I'd have been thrilled to pay for them, I rationalized...