Word: mp3
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aren't sure where to find it, a new search feature on Lycos lycos.com can get you started. Simply enter the name of a song or music group, then let the search engine scour some 1,000 sites with more than half a million songs stored in the MP3 format. One warning: some songs available online are pirated, and downloading them is illegal...
...portable music player ($199) that handles MP3s, a digital format that squeezes CDs down to one-tenth their normal size in megabytes. That makes them small enough to send on the Net. But thanks to a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit that tried to ban the players--MP3 is the format of choice for audio pirates as well as many legitimate artists--everyone wants one. Diamond says it's sold out through Christmas. But, hey, there's always next year...
They wish. Stung by the seismic popularity of a standard known as MP3, the recording industry has been fighting back. But they're hardly in time. Scores of pirate MP3 sites have sprung up online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge...
...learned of the MP3 phenomenon when Jonathan Clenman, a tech guy in my office, took me over to his PC recently and showed me what I've been missing. He had more than 160 songs on his computer, which was playing like a juke box, pumping out music whose quality was so good, I couldn't differentiate it from a CD player. "This is the end of the recording industry!" I shrieked. Clenman sighed. "I doubt it," he said...
...touch with Christopher Sabec, a music agent who happened to discover teen-rock idols the brothers Hanson. Sabec believes that far from being the music industry's undoing, MP3 will be a boon. The recording industry has always made a profit by giving away product for free," Sabec pointed out, mentioning radio as the obvious example. He said lots of savvy bands are already using the technology to put free music samples online legally. The gambit especially works for folks trying to break into the music biz who are eager to get radio airtime. In fact, a new band that...