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Article: COLUMN: MP3 free-for-all to end as record companies adopt technology
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- August 29, 2000
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Eric Dickens
University Wire
08-29-2000
(The Battalion) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- For years, a three-letter word was the term most often used in search engine requests -- "sex." Trying to prove once again that sex does sell, online opportunists ranging from established corporations to disgruntled guys posting pictures of ex-girlfriends, worked to make a buck off of sex on the Internet. However, sex's reign as the top search request was ended by three other keystrokes -- "MP3." Now, the same spectrum of people, from huge record companies to garage bands, will soon try to make money off MP3s and prove that the controversial file format can sell as well as sex.
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