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NYT: Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/07net.html

March 7, 2000

Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried

By AMY HARMON

hen the local alternative rock station listed the 300 top songs of the millennium in December, Adam Campbell, a freshman at the University of Oregon, decided it would be nice to own the entire collection.

Two hours later, using the fast Internet connection in his dorm room and a new online service called Napster, Mr. Campbell had retrieved 275 of the tunes -- free. They sit nestled on his computer hard drive along with 800 or so other songs he has accumulated the same way.

"That's three days of continuous music," he notes with pride.

The music industry is already disturbed about how easy it is to copy music via the Internet without paying for it.

But in recent months Napster has greatly magnified the threat.

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