Living Online
March, 2000
Mp3 Grows UpUnless you've been away, you know about MP3, an audio compression format that's become the number one way to distribute music over the Internet. The beauty of MP3 is that it reduces the file size of songs to a few megabytes, making it relatively painless to download them, even for those with slow modems. The record industry is freaking out over the MP3 phenomenon, going so far as to pressure university officials to conduct surprise computer searches and bust students who trade MP3s c...
