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EMI gambles on copy protected music files 19 July 2000 EMI, one of the so-called Big Five major international record labels, posted 100 albums and 40 singles online yesterday for paid download. It’s the largest scale Internet music offering by a major label so far. Amazon and CDnow will sell the files. As a response to the extraordinarily successful but legally questionable distribution of MP3 (MPEG I layer 3) music files via channels such as Napster and Gnutella, the move will serve as an interesting test if nothing else: all the EMI files are in the copy protected and propriety Windows Media format. The test will be whether there is a significant market for less-than-CD quality music files that cost money, without the tangible and collectible CD artwork or CD itself—in light of the availability of free versions of the same music. | BBC story | | top of page | |
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