My take on the high-tech news. But as John Borland and Jim Hu point out in their analysis, it's not at all. As with any other product, there's a cost for distribution.
Music files are big.
P2P services have succeeded in hiding those costs by dispersing them. You and I assume the cost of storage, because the files are kept on our machines. Our ISPs assume the bandwidth costs of moving them. Click for more . But this stands as yet another reason why it must live.