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Seattle-Based Digital-Media Firm Finds Itself Quickly in Center of Controversy.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Kim Peterson, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 5--At the beginning of last week, Seattle-based Loudeye was trumpeting a new system developed by two college students as a groundbreaking, legal way to share music.

By week's end, the digital-media company was in defensive mode after the service -- which it supplied with songs -- was shut down.

Now it's not saying anything as it stands at the center of controversy.

The company's predicament demonstrates the bewildering issues that surround digital music. New and evolving technologies are forcing the recording industry into uncharted territory, where the rules are so murky that even a student research project cannot escape scrutiny.

Loudeye...

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