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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Radio Silence
Fees force college stations to stop Webcasting
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, August 16, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i49/49a03301.htm

"Almost all American college radio stations have listeners who call in
to make song requests. But few have people calling in from Israel. At
the University of Akron, however, WZIP-FM reached a worldwide audience
by transmitting its music over the Internet at the same time it
broadcast a traditional radio signal locally."
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Forrester sees $2 billion digital music market by 2007
Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, Tue, Aug. 13, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3856253.htm

"Video may have killed the radio star, but Forrester Research Tuesday
said Internet piracy was not to blame -- as record labels have claimed
-- for the 15 percent drop in music sales in the past two years."
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Report from Forrester Research:
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Coverage/0,5907,148,FF.html
(Contributed by Stephen Davies)
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Study: Kazaa, Morpheus rave on 
By Larry Dignan, CNET News.com, August 14, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-949724.html

"Digital distribution of music through services such as Morpheus and
Kazaa will continue to thrive, with use peaking in 2005, according to a
report released Wednesday."