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...music section. "Our consumer is the middle 80% of the population," says Gerry Lopez, president of Handleman Entertainment Resources, which stocks and manages music offerings at such stores as Wal-Mart. "These are moms and dads making $26,000 to $36,000 a year...We're not catering to Napster or Kazaa folks, just people who like a nice song sung by a nice...
...April. But 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...
...RIAA must do what it would not do with Napster: distribute low price music online. And they know perfectly well that, even if lawsuits could stop the sharing, people would never go back to buying CD's. They are just trying to buy two or three years in which to keep milking the high price CD cow, before giving it up. But even this limited attempt is going to fail. Alberto Rezza Italy...
...record industry needed to strike a deal with Napster to co-opt its user base into a high quality pay-for-play service. Now that they have forced the users into a plethora of decentralized services, there is no good solution left. The recording industry will now continue to hemmorhage money for quite some time. James Sweet Rochester...
...Quite simply, they can stop trying so hard. Ever since the Napster debacle, I've tried my best to steer clear of purchasing music owned by RIAA member corporations. Not only have I discovered great bands from a large number of independent labels (and yes, bought their CDs), but I've avoided putting money into the pockets of an organization that refuses to work with programmers to build a practical solution, and instead insists on using counterproductive bully tactics. J.T. Stanton II Fairfax...