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According to a new comparison of online music business models and companies prepared by Red">http://www.redherring.com/research">Red Herring Research, Napster simply cannot exist without the complete consent of the recording industry, and the company's recent attempts to appease the copyright infringement concerns of the industry have so far failed. The study also finds it highly unlikely that the company's peer-to-peer model will find success, given the history of its relationship with the recording industry, its declining membership, and impending competition from services like MusicNet and Duet.

In 1984, George Orwell's chilling tale of life in a totalitarian society, good citizens are expected to master the art of "doublethink," the ability to embrace two contradictory ideas at the same time. As evidenced by legal actions undertaken by their organization in late May, executives of the Recording">http://www.riaa.com">Recording Industry Association of America would make excellent role models in an Orwellian state.

Some long-time Stereophile readers were outraged when the magazine put a photo of a computer soundcard on its cover in September of 2000 http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/280/">(click here for the review and controversy). And then, John Atkinson added insult to injury by doing another soundcard">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/299/">soundcard review last November. Some readers may have been scratching their heads about why we did it, but at least one manufacturer is getting the message.

On May 23, the Juilliard">http://www.juilliard.edu">Juilliard School of Music announced the selection of 18 instrumentalists who will form the core of the newly-created Juilliard Jazz Orchestra. As orchestra members, the musicians will benefit from tuition-free study at the school's recently established Juilliard Institute for Jazz. The creation of the institute—a collaboration of the Juilliard School and the "Jazz at Lincoln Center" program—is an indication that the prestigious institution is further acknowledging the importance of jazz, an indigenous American genre that many critics have called "the classical music of the 20th century."

It was 15 years ago this week that an enthusiastic John Atkinson was lured From">http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/352/">From London to Santa Fe to take the helm of Stereophile. As JA recounted back in 1986, "From London, England, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a pretty big jump, both geographically and culturally. From Hi-Fi News & Record Review to Stereophile, however, is a mere hop; the similarities overwhelm the differences."

A quickly established favorite among music fans, the CDDBhttp://www.cddb.com">CDDB; website provides comprehensive information for tracking who and what appears on just about any CD in existence (see previoushttp://www.stereophile.com/news/10438/">previous;). But as users of the service are discovering, the company that now maintains the database, Gracenotehttp://www.gracenote.com">Gracenote;, is starting to change the rules of access.