“We have the opportunity to create a personal jukebox in the house and car.” “This is the takeoff point for the music business” (“A Little Net Music”, 34). These statements by AOL Chief Executive Stephen M. Case reflect the latest trend in the music industry for the distribution of recorded music. Advances in technology now allow individuals to record their own digital copies of music, with its high fidelity, from numerous Internet web sites. In 1999 approximately 100,000 …showed first 75 words of 1517 total…

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