> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tosh Cooey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 10 February 2004 16:10
> 
> I would be very interested to hear any ideas to work around 
> this problem.

What I'd suggest is that the cost of downloading a track (one cent 
per megabyte) is very much subject to variation. The larger an 
operation you run, the lower your bandwidth costs probably are 
on a per-meg basis. Also, bandwidth costs tend to decrease over 
time in a similar fashion to the way CPU power becomes cheaper 
year on year, so in the medium term the cost of downloading one 
meg of data could be expected to decrease fairly significantly. 

Once you drop down to much lower costs-per-meg, the commerical 
model would work a lot better.

Brendan

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