“…America Online, Warner Music Group’s corporate cousin, last week began offering 99 cent downloads of music from artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morissette, Missy Elliott, Jewel and Brandy. In all, AOL plans to offer 15 songs at that price. The promotion marks the first time Warner Music has teamed with AOL Music to offer songs in the unprotected MP3 format. The major record labels have routinely dismissed MP3 because of its ability to be used, copied and distributed onto many different mediums without any copy protection. Nevertheless, consumers have turned the format into a default standard for music files because of its universal ability to be downloaded onto digital devices or burned onto CDs…”
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