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Many of them college students, these users swapped songs in MP3 format, television episodes, full-length movies and other forms of entertainment...
Scour.com was founded in 1997 by five students at the University of California at Los Angeles. Within a year, the company attempted to tap into the growing popularity of the MP3 music format by developing a multimedia search engine...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
...College Edition" marks the first time in the history of the show that producers have gone into the field and hand-picked the contestants from interviews. Previously, contestants were selected after they answered questions on an 800 number. The show's producers continued to experiment with this new selection format, travelling to 7 cities to pick the contestants for the regular January episodes of the show...
...what's worrisome is that there's no reason why Microsoft needs to continue offering the product for sale. As long as the price of renewing Office is less than the cost of buying a different product and converting all the old files and documents to the new format, customers will continue to renew their subscriptions, year after year--not a bad deal for the folks in Redmond...