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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The real question is whether the new rules of music distribution will free up a new set of stakeholders that will force the labels to change their business or be marginalized.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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We are the best resource for these types of music and we work with record labels local bands or anybody who would like to hire us to do their production.
This is a very ancient but still very popular form of music which can be of many radically different styles and labels.
A group called Kitten Music in Dublin has been shopping our stuff around to all the record labels and these meetings came out of that.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Or that labels such as RCA Victor and Concord Jazz regularly release music CDs that have been recorded in Dolby Surround?
Black Labels fans can expect something different from them at HomeGrown, when they debut some new music with vocalists they have played with at the Red Lion.
Though major labels do not sell MP3 music, many independent artists also release MP3 versions of their album for free on the internet.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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The labels are also trying to co-opt the music downloads for themselves by lobbying for new technology that prevents people from copying and exchanging the music they download.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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EMusic was the first and most successful legally licensed digital music download service, specializing in independent labels and artists.
It is no secret that the major labels involved in both projects will eventually have to agree to license music to the other in order to be successful, thus providing music consumers the broadest selection possible.
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Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist
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It enables music labels to lay songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers, one that would permit normal playback on a stereo and a PC.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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There is so not enough $ in smaller labels releasing freestyle which is a big part of why this music isn't a big as it should be.
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