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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Fans are starting to gravitate to paid online music services? ';
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syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_9.shtml#147';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The New York Times\' Neil Strauss surveyed some former die-hard file-swapping fans who now say they are becoming grudgingly happy with paid online music services back by labels. Why? Selection and ease of use has come within the range of what they consider reasonable for $10 or so a month. (Registration Required to view site) ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'KaZaa now lets consumers filter out bogus files ';
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syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_9.shtml#146';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'File-swapping service Kazaa\'s new software allows people to rate files so that corrupt or false files will quickly collect ratings poor enough to warn people away from downloading them. That\'s just one of the features the company unveiled this week that is likely to annoy record labels, according to CNET New\'s John Borland. ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jupiter study says royalties may webcasting music a money-looser';
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syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_9.shtml#132';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 5, 2002';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Lisa Bowman of CNET News writes that Jupiter Research said royalty fees could bankrupt Web radio stations by forcing them to pay more to play songs than they could ever make up in advertising revenue--a prediction that\'s already come true for dozens of stations that have ceased their Webcasts because of the payments.
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Napster shuts down after Bertelsmann bailout denied';
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syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_9.shtml#131';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 4, 2002';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Napster Inc. officially shut down last night after a bankruptcy judge blocked the sale of the company that revolutionized music-swapping to Bertelsmann AG. See a The Washington Post story. The Boston Globe\'s D.C. Dennison also has the story.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Pent up consumer demand awaits reasonably priced online music? ';
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syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_9.shtml#135';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 3, 2002';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Although estimates are that fewer than 100,000 people have joined legal music-download services, write Simon Avery quotes experts as saying there is huge pent-up demand for simple, reasonably priced Internet music services. How about typing in "dinner music" and getting personalized selections, the BizReport.COM writer suggests? ';
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