91.   The biggest recording companies have since formed a committee called the Secure Digital Music Initiative to study how best to prevent pirating and control Internet music distribution.

92.   The battle over copyrights and royalties between the recording companies and online music sites such as Napster is still raging.

93.   The couple are being aggressively marketed by EMI Classics, the London-based recording company that recently signed them to an exclusive joint contract.

94.   The dispute led to the establishment of the Rhythm-and-Blues Foundation, which is supported by recording companies and issues grants to pioneering performers.

95.   The deal does not resolve the legal challenge by the other recording companies, though they may follow along.

96.   The decision gave recording companies a brief reprieve from the inevitable.

97.   The demonstration tapes he sent to national recording companies were rejected.

98.   The five major recording companies said Monday that they would, for the first time, begin to test selling albums as digital information transmitted over the Internet.

99.   The guest was satisfied, never knowing that Jobson is CEO of Starapple International, a shipping, tourism, filming and recording company.

100.   The major recording companies have made huge investments in that system, but Napster signals its obsolescence.