81. Online music companies once consisted of a small band of self-professed renegades. 82. Online music retailers are essentially mail-order vendors who post interactive catalogs on the Web. 83. Online music seller EMusic.com Inc. yesterday launched an automated computer program that hunts Napster users who are sharing songs licensed to the Redwood City company. 84. Other online music distributors complain that the big music companies have been reluctant to give them access to their music. 85. Online music offers benefits not found in store-bought CDs, users say. 86. Online music stores, including CDnow, Music Boulevard and Amazon.com, even carry his music. 87. Other subscription-based online music companies are struggling. 88. Pakman is the co-founder of myplay, a booming online music service that allows free access to popular music. 89. Philips plans to market the technology, which is not yet commercially available, to a wide array of customers, including copyright watchdogs patrolling for online music piracy. 90. Recently, for example, eight online resellers offered the base version of the Rio, a popular device for playing online music files. |