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Just when you thought you were completely au fait with downloading music from
the Internet, they go and change the system. The music industry is finally
accepting the Net as a way of delivering music, and it wants to use something
better than the MP3 format. The German giant Bertlesmann (owner of Arista and
RCA, among others) is now working with former enemy Napster to try to make money
from music file sharing. And Universal (A&M, Motown) is in partnership with
MP3.com (http://progress.mp3.com). Both Bertelsmann and Universal have signed up
to use the successor technology to MP3, a…

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