Word: mp3
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Piracy of entertainment content on the Internet is a growing pain in the wallet for artists and executives in several huge industries. Just ask any music mogul who has fretted over the explosion of copyrighted songs that have been pirated and made available for free in the MP3 format on the Net. The rise of emulators could present an even more insidious problem. For one thing, annual sales of video and computer games, at $6.3 billion, have surpassed those of recorded music and even movies ($6 billion). And piracy hits the games industry harder, undercutting sales of both consoles...
This is a sour note for the $12 billion-a-year music industry, which is belatedly taking a long, painful look at its endangered business model. The industry is losing millions in revenue to the digital pirates, who use a readily available (and free, of course) software program called MP3 (Mpeg1 Layer 3) to receive and send music over the Internet. The pirated tunes have sound quality comparable to that of CDs, and can even be channeled through conventional stereo systems. "The Internet has made music so vulnerable," says Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) general counsel Cary Sherman, "[that...
...unaware that what they are doing is illegal. Or they simply don't care. They grew up ripping off the latest Microsoft software; why should the music industry's software be any different? "We are violating laws," admits Lukas Hauser, a 22-year-old Web designer who hosted pirate MP3 servers while an undergraduate at Brown University, "but the laws are painfully obsolete...
...palm-size device that comes with a headphone jack. People who use personal digital assistants such as the Philips Nino will be able to buy and play programming without purchasing the Audible player. And last week Audible began offering free samples of its content in the popular MP3 format at www.audible3.com Anyone--even Mac users!--can listen in after downloading a free MP3 player, like the ones at www.mp3.com Audible plans to offer serial books in this format. Still, you might want to buy the Audible mobile device for a cool feature that allows you to play it through your...
...last year, she didn't fret--she went online. Her engaging new CD, Jonatha Brooke Live, is available for mail-order purchase exclusively at Brooke's website www.jonathabrooke.com) which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who went through an acrimonious divorce from Warner Bros. Records, released a brilliant...