MP3's
First of all MP3.com is an Internet site that has downloadable MP3's or in other words digital music. MP3's are free for people to download and listen to instead of buying the artists' CD's. MP3.com is the most widely used site for downloading more than 180,000 songs from over 31,000 artists. As a promotion to get artists to post their music on the Website, MP3.com is offering the artists a portion of $200,000. Since Nov. 2, the artists who have songs available at MP3.com have been accumulating a portion of this money based on the popularity of their music. MP3.com invites all artists to post their music on their web page. Michael Robertson, chairperson of the website, stated that MP3.com is better because the artist gains a cash benefit for his or her musical performances. The artists posting their songs on the Internet are taking a risk that consumers will preview the music in MP3 format and then want to go out and buy the CD. In order to protect the artists' rights, a group of 117 big companies such as Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Liquid Audio, Microsoft Corp., and RealNetworks have formed the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). The goal of this group is to discover a way to
control the distribution of MP3's while making a profit to pay to copyright holders. The entire SDMI initiative is expected to be completed in the first half of 2000. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is making an attempt to dampen the popularity of MP3's with the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). SDMI's goal is to allow online music sales but limits the ability to make copies. Music CD's will have SDMI locks and digital watermarks to discourage piracy. While the SDMI is doing this, hackers are already coming up with ways to get around those locks. The author wrote this article because he feels that the music business is going to reinvent itself with the use of the internet and its possibilities. Isenberg, Katie "Web Hits: Will the Internet Make the Record Ozer, Jan. "Secure Future for Music: Protecting Artists' 1999 10 Nov. 1999 http://.../purl=rcl_EAI_0_A55844150&dyn=54!xrn_28_0_A55844150?sw_aep=siu_morris. Artists $200,000; Promotion Called Payback for Playback." PR Newswire Association, Inc. 6 Nov. 1999. 10 Nov. 1999 1999 p79. 10 Nov. 1999 Business Obsolete?" The New Republic 6 Sept. 1999 p16. 10 Nov. 1999 http://.../purl=
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