Online music standards war brewing | ZDNet
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That was the verdict of Digital Music Showdown -- a forum held here by the New York Software Industries Association on Friday. The forums panelists -- Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com; Dick Wingate, vice president of content development at Liquid Audio; Howie Singer, chief technical officer of AT&Ts a2b, and Nick DiGiacomo, a consultant with the Recording Industries Association of America (RIAA) -- painted a picture of a promising industry wallowing in a confusing morass of competing claims and technologies. A2bs Singer, Liquid Audios Wingate and the RIAAs DiGiacomo all said that SDMI and a secure standards were the only way that artists could ever develop an e-commerce business model over the Web. MP3 is by far the most popular Internet music format now, with Robertsons site offering thousands of songs for download to some 200,000 daily visitors. All well and good, except for the fact that few of these artists are getting rich off Web promotion, and the field of big-name MP3 files is unlikely to expand much as long as the labels dont support it.
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