Points out Mike Wathen, a music producer, “If a new release sells 70,000 copies from a store, it would be counted as a substantial success. But if it is downloaded from the Web that many times, it may still be considered as unheard of.”
For the recording companies the acceptance of listening to music from MP-3 files, which are almost CD qualify, is happening too fast and too soon in the consumer market. Michael Robinson, chief executive officer of MP3.com, a popular Website offering free downloading of songs from 7,000 bands, mostly unsigned,comments: “The truth is that the MP-3 has evolved incredibly quickly into a full-blown mainstream movement and has caught many people unprepared.”
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