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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2002 01:27 AM
>>>>The Napster debacle is just too obvious to bring up again: we all loved it, record sales were up, and now its as gone as my unconditional love for Metallica.

So, you love Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos because they supported mp3.com. Get real --- Alanis and Tori were given $14 million each in mp3.com stock options to promote the company.

http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,35232,00.html

What about the independent musicians who want to promote their music? Get real --- even the independent musicians want copy-protected technologies in their CD's.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24947  .html

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