“Music wants to be free. MP3 will bring artists a
bigger cut of the profits. Middlemen will diminish, and the
recording industry is running scared.”
“‘The question is: Is this real or is this just so much
rhetoric?’ asked Charles Nesson, director of Berkman Center for the
Internet & Society and moderator of the opening panel at
‘Signal or Noise? The Future of Music on the Net,’ a conference
held on Friday at Harvard Law School.”
“A proven model for MP3 success has yet to emerge from the
various online music ‘labels,’…”
“In what way is MP3 going to offer the young musician a new
career path?”
“The answer? It’s still in beta…”