Music

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Salon.com August 1, 2002 Pete Rojas	Bootleg culture Powerful computers and easy-to-use editing software are challenging our conceptions of authorship and creativity. As usual, the entertainment industry doesn't like this one bit.
Salon.com July 30, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Sour notes The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
PC World July 29, 2002 Stuart J. Johnston	Web Radio Fights for Survival Webcasters rally against royalty ruling they say will yank many off the Net.
Knowledge@Wharton	Is Internet Radio Dying? The days of independent radio on the Net could be numbered, say some experts. A recently established royalty fee payable to record companies may price many small content providers out of the market, leaving some with no choice but to shut down.
AskMen.com Dennis O'Connell	Top 10 Most Expensive Music Memorabilia
PC World July 8, 2002 Stacy Cowley	Will Web Music Ever Play? Jupiter's Plug In conference ponders cures for the digital music slump.
Salon.com June 25, 2002 Eric Boehlert	Will Congress tackle pay-for-play? Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked! -- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you).
Salon.com June 25, 2002 Eric Boehlert	Is Clear Channel selling hit singles? Insiders suggest that the broadcasting giant gave an obscure singer major airplay to promote its pricey new market-research program.
Salon.com June 19, 2002 Gary Dretzka	Satellite radio to the rescue Corporate dreck dominates the FM airwaves like never before, but hope for music lovers may finally have arrived.
Salon.com June 13, 2002 Damien Cave	File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
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