Living Online

March, 1999

Music Music MusicLast Friday, I became an MP3 music pirate. It wasn't hard. First, I went to billboard.com and looked up the name of the current number-one single: Doo Wop (That Thing), by Lauryn Hill. Next, I went to scour.net (a multimedia search engine) and looked for audio files matching "lauryn+hill+wop." More than a thousand different pirate sites offered the song in MP3 format, which squeezes songs to a twelfth the size of an audio CD file (or about a megabyte per minute of musi...

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