81.   Just a few years ago, watching a DVD movie or copying a digital music file was an expensive and slow process.

82.   Lathroum, Zito and Harrison founded Garageband.com to link the emerging on-line digital music industry with traditonal recording companies.

83.   Liquid Audio has been unsuccessful pushing its proprietary Liquid Tracks technology as the standard for digital music distribution.

84.   Meanwhile Eric Scheirer, a digital music analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., said he doubts the new system has a future.

85.   Meanwhile, the recording industry is trying to establish a new standard for digital music that will ensure security.

86.   MICROSOFT ACQUIRES MUSIC WEB SITE Microsoft said Wednesday that it had acquired MongoMusic Inc., a Redwood City, Calif., producer of Web-based digital music technology.

87.   Napster, the most popular of the digital music Web sites, recently raised the white flag to avoid continued legal action.

88.   New companies such as Clickradio, a digital interactive music service, provide free CD-quality music that, unlike streaming Internet radio, works offline.

89.   Musicland Vice Chairman Keith Benson said the online sites could eventually sell digital music directly to consumers through the Internet or even at existing stores.

90.   Napster, the service that allows users to swap digital music files, is a perfect example.