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...Five, will acquire Mp3.com, the first of the online free-music outlaws, for $372 million - $5 a share for a stock that once saw the 70s - in what's becoming quite a scramble by the Big Five to get in on the business that Mp3.com started and Napster made dangerous: Online music distribution...
...Chris Taylor: First of all, most Americans aren't going to be able to type Vivendi.com, much less remember that it's a music site. The reason why these companies are buying rather than creating distribution channels is about brand name - names like Napster and Mp3.com have a built-in brand awareness - and about time. Why take the trouble to build your own music-distributing web site when you can get one for $5 a share...
...wouldn't matter so much if the whole existence of digital music in the MP3 format weren't at stake. A few months ago MP3 reigned supreme with dozens of MP3 players crowding the market and at least 60 million users downloading from Napster to their heart's content. Now the player market has imploded, Napster is near death's door and (not coincidentally) the music industry is subtly beginning to push a new standard, DVD audio...
...Black: yes, this means you're going to have to buy the White Album again. "The MP3 revolution diverted us for a while," one record producer told me recently. "But things are back on track now. DVD audio is the future, and you won't find it on Napster...
...concise and dramatic, seem to have a similar effect. What is most startling about the exhibition, however, is not the grotesque pictures or the descriptive stories; but the cartoon-like symbols Gimonprez employs. A disturbing logo that looks like a hybrid between Mickey Mouse, an alien and the infamous Napster logo is dispersed throughout the exhibition...