71.   Recording companies praised the decision as an affirmation of copyright protection.

72.   Recording companies such as PolyGram NV are pinning their hopes on the last quarter, the busiest time of the year.

73.   Recording companies also signed singers to expensive deals that did not meet expectations.

74.   Recording companies and their trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, have sued to have Napster shut down.

75.   Recording companies were already seeking the next Morissette, cultivating the yelps of singers like Natalie Imbruglia, Chantal Kreviazuk and Tracy Bonham.

76.   Sellers called the music the result of hard work by many recording companies, orchestras, producers and composers, including celebrated film-music composer John Williams.

77.   SELLING MUSIC VIA THE INTERNET Major recording companies will begin marketing albums as digital information transmitted over the Internet.

78.   Several Internet service providers, however, have begun to suspend accounts of users who have been identified by recording companies or movie studios as trading copyrighted material.

79.   Similarly, the technology could be used to prevent piracy of digital music, and could give recording companies the confidence to sell songs and albums over the Internet.

80.   So far, the recording companies say they have not yet received the necessary licenses from music publishers to proceed in September.