From eric hill Sent Tue, Mar 2nd 1999, 17:30
>> MP3s are great for self distribution, but other than that let's not get >> carried away. These lossy compression technologies as applied to audio are > >let's forget about the specific format of MP3. instead, i think what we >really want to be talking about is media-less content distribution. or at >least, media-independant content. i couldn't care less about that stuff. what's important to me is the ability for people to own their own "printing press," as it were. the particular medium is irrelevant, except to the extent that it aids distribution, which in this case is very helpful. streaming media is by no means limited to the mpeg standard, however, so try not to confuse the issues. eric