Word: mp3s
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...economy. After spending months hunting down pirates, working on SDMI (the Secure Digital Music Initiative) and investing millions in litigation, battling companies like MP3.com and Scour, the industry may have thought it had begun to stuff the digital genie back into its shrink-wrap. Despite the initial hype about MP3s, the format turned out to be downloadable music for geeks only. The rest of us couldn't be bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist...
Their timing was perfect. The popularity of MP3s was just starting to surge across college campuses, and Fisher rode the wave. In late May a Fisher ballad called I Will Love You became the most frequently downloaded pop/rock song on MP3.com At one point late last year, the five most popular songs on the site were Fisher's. In fewer than 10 months their songs were downloaded 1 million times...
...artist currently known as The Artist negotiated a record deal that allows him to sell his CD from his own website. Aimee Mann bought back her master tapes from Geffen and is selling her new disc through the e-commerce site artistdirect.com Grateful Dead successors Phish put up free MP3s of some live performances, causing dramatic drop-offs in worker productivity in the San Francisco Bay Area...
...consumers will walk up to Web-enabled kiosks in convenience stores and airport terminals, punch in a credit-card number and instantly download two new Mariah Carey songs onto a cassette the size of a pencil tip. When that happens, who's going to bother trawling through thousands of MP3s for the next Fisher? That's why, sitting at a Melrose Avenue cafe early this year, Fisher and Wasserman seemed more relieved than elated. There are now at least 1 million songs available for download on MP3.com "It's already too saturated," Wasserman said. "This is going to become...
...disruptive technology like MP3s," she said. "It is causing people to re-think knowledge...