91. Rivals EMI, BMG Music, AOL Time Warner and RealNetworks Inc. have a competing online music program called MusicNet, which has worked out a deal with Napster. 92. Some online music sellers already have made it available, and the sites are busy. 93. Sony and Time Warner, for example, merged their Columbia House record club unit with CDNow, an online music store. 94. Some executives who run online music services say all of the labels need to make their catalogs more broadly available, with fewer security restrictions. 95. So the operating system should deliver the technology to make handling digital photography and online music easier. 96. Some online music companies are trying to become more legitimate. 97. Some online music companies are, in fact, changing their business models. 98. Some online music startups say they have had trouble securing licenses to sell music online. 99. That sentiment and the Spinner.com business model are copied by several competitors, including Rolling Stone Radio, a partnership between the online music hub Tunes.com and Real Networks. 100. That fact was underscored by the announcement last week that recording, technology and consumer electronics companies had agreed to standards for protecting music copyrights in online music sales. |