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Article: COMMENTARY: Record companies should embrace MP3 format
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- February 24, 1999
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Luke Saugier
University Wire
02-24-1999
(The Battalion) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The music industry claims it is losing a large amount of profits because of MP3s which stands for MPEG layer 3, a type of compressed data file used to record music. The files most commonly hold music in digital form.
Like most other file types, they can be freely copied and distributed over the Internet or a computer network.
The music industry loses money because it is possible to convert music to the MP3 format and then distribute the contents of the CD for free.
And of course, no one who can get all the songs on a CD off of the Internet is going to want to buy that same CD.
In an effort to stem ...