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    Record industry execs and critics trade jabs at an industry conference, with a legislator saying that Pressplay and MusicNet may amount to a 'duopoly.

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    Napster may have been defanged, but other rogue peer-to-peer music services still exist. Even if the music industry were to crush these services too, millions of music fans won't forget the Napster experience.

  • Web rights deal will let the music play

    One of the last major legal roadblocks to mainstream music-subscription services on the Web appears ready to fall, with a tentative deal between music publishers and the big record labels on the table.

  • Will record labels play in Microsoft's band?

    As the major record labels try to remake online music in their own image, Microsoft's presence is looming powerfully enough to influence the biggest alliances in the business--even if the software giant hasn't struck the big deals itself.

  • Anti-piracy feud bodes ill for Web music

    Pressplay and MusicNet subscription services will make songs legally available online, but people using iPod, iPaq and other new devices still won't be able to listen to them.

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    Microsoft's MacWorld Expo announcement that it will deliver a version of its Media Player software for OS X this coming spring follows two of the company's "new millennium" strategies.

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    Microsoft is trying to woo Mac OS X users with its new Microsoft Windows Media Player for OS X. Seeking to gain an advantage over its nemesis, Real Networks, this new Media Player release will be the only software to support streaming Windows Media audio and video on the Mac.

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