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...certain of. The main reason is technology. So far, it just isn't clear how to track every digital file out there and put a user name and a price on it. And there are huge questions about what a reasonable price would be. Barry has suggested a monthly fee of $4.95. But websites all over cyberspace burned furiously last week as Napster fans threatened to ditch the service if it charged as much as a nickel for music-file access...
...payers, and Billpoint is currently running a promotion that takes $1 off all purchases made with a Visa card. PayPal actually pays you $5 to open an account and another $5 for each friend you refer. Both services make their money by charging the seller a small fixed fee and a percentage of the total dollar amount sent on each transaction...
...Monthly fee for a ship to be monitored by a satellite tracking system in case of piracy attack or hijack...
...election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major TV networks plus the Associated Press. (TIME, like many print publications, pays a fee to share in some of the information.) Since the networks set up VNS in 1990 - saving themselves a bundle on their own polling operations - the system has worked fairly well, save for miscalling a New Hampshire Senate election...
...Details of the coming fee-music service were conspicuously absent, as was any sign of a standing-down by the other big labels. But that seems entirely appropriate - while everyone seems to agree that some alliance between Big Music and the Internet is an inevitable future, a business model has yet to emerge. Napster, apparently, will be the laboratory. "This is a call for the industry to wake up," said Middelhoff, adding that BMG "couldn't ignore" Napster's 38 million users. "They can't all be criminals...