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Ads in MP3s?

Ugh... don't get me wrong... ads are great-- they make the internet go. But, read this article about a Canadian company which is trying to create a Mp3 related format with ads. I think what they're missing is that the large popularity of the MP3 format is the popularity of home-encoded music.

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