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Old October 16th 03, 08:53 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
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Default Copy protected CD's not the worst threat to sound quality!

I fear that in a few years the majority of music will not be availble on
physical media but instead be sold on-line in compressed form!

The move has allready started with Apple's ITunes, TDC's solution here
in Denmark and several others. For now they make deals with the record
labels but soon the musicians will make their own deals with them, and
the on-line shops in effect becoming new record companies forcing the
record labels to minic the model.

Now I'm all for the artists getting a bigger share of the money but I
fear sound quality will get lost in the process of the music
distribution going on-line. My prediction is that getting uncompressed
music will be just as hard as it is to find vinyl theese days!

Am I just over pesimistic or ?

Kind regards

Bruno, Denmark