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Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...competition from illegal downloading services has put the legit pioneers through a lot of corporate turmoil. Listen.com was bought this summer by RealNetworks; Pressplay, the service begun by record labels Universal and Sony, is now owned by softwaremaker Roxio, which also bought the rights to the defunct Napster brand; MusicNet, begun by the three other big labels, is now offered by America Online (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner). Yet the growing business potential brings ever more newcomers. At least 10 new services plan to go live in coming months. Roxio expects to launch a made-over...
...high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet, but its ka-ching comes from the 16 million visitors it delivers each month to advertisers like Coca-Cola...
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...major labels' systems include the online services Pressplay (owned by Vivendi Universal and Sony) and MusicNet (EMI, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and the software firm RealNetworks). Initially hyped as the legitimate alternatives to the original outlaw Napster, these services have flopped with consumers--especially where CD burning is concerned. Pressplay charges $9.95 to let you burn 10 tracks a month--barely enough for one CD. MusicNet offers no burning capabilities, but EMI seems to have belatedly recognized the need, at least for fans of Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale. You can now burn up to 20 tracks from...