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...That's just something cafe patrons and commuters are going to have to deal with. But thanks to Alain Rossman, not every stranger will treat you to half his conversation at an unseasonable volume. He will be too busy using his mobile to trade stocks or download MP3s or play chess with his buddies...
Remember when the biggest fear of the recording music industry was the CD copier? The image of some teenager in Akron duping Britney Spears albums for all his friends had executives tossing in bed, teeth ground to nubbins. And now that those copiers are here it hardly matters. As MP3s and their ilk spell the end of music merchandising as we know it and the recording industry scrambles to find a new business model, that Akron teen is the least of their worries. The days of the CD are, after all, limited. But while record execs gnash their teeth over...
...used to draw the line at books. the more my life became digital and downloadable, dominated by DVDs and MP3s, the more dust that gathered on my analog music tapes and VHS cassettes, the more I resolved never to abandon the trusty old paper- ink-and-glue devices that proliferate on my shelves and pile up on my floor. As a die-hard bibliophile, I'd trot out every argument in the book against e-books: they're too clunky to curl up with; they're too expensive; they can't re-create print- perfect text or the smell...
...online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks of life...
Fisher feels that a settlement would be a better long-term solution, because it would allow musicians and the recording industry to benefit from the positive uses of MP3s...