The best thing that the record labels can do is offer the consumer something that no free service can afford to give them.

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Gnutella is a decentralized system. There's no single server that tells you all the information of who's got what. So there's no single point in the continuum that you can force to shut down, ... If you take half of the computers that use Gnutella off the system, the other half will still work just fine.

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Five to 10 years from now, nearly every recorded song will be stored in digital form on servers, and delivered on demand via wired and wireless Internet to homes, offices, cars and portable devices.

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It's prohibitively expensive to deliver high-quality music over wireless Internet streaming. That's where the benefit of satellite radio comes in.

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Clearly, this is a coordinated attack against Apple's dominance in the digital music arena.

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Right now, there isn't much of a market for selling content, but Apple could eventually complement its offerings with paid subscriptions.

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I think that the most important effect of this legal setback for (MP3.com) is that they might have to capitulate and play ball in a way that they haven't been willing to in the past.

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If the music industry is going to pull out of its nosedive and create a new model that makes sense, it's going to need some kind of ownership that has the capacity to take risks.

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