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Yahoo! Internet Life's August issue focuses on one of the most exciting, yet heavily debated aspects of the Internet revolution - online music. A series of articles take a candid look at the issues surrounding services like Napster and MP3.com, and includes interviews with artists who fight for and against the free exchange of online music, including Alanis Morissette, Chuck D and Aimee Mann.

Let's Put it All on The Table

The centerpiece of the online music special is a spirited roundtable composed of interviews conducted by David Grad featuring the leading figures in the online music debate, including the founders of Napster and its UK counterpart, Freenet; Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry of America (RIAA); and musicians such as Alanis Morissette, Chuck D and Todd Rundgren. Below are some of the highlights:

CHUCK D, RECORDING ARTIST: "You'd like to say that the music is the artist's, but it isn't, because the copyrights and masters are controlled by company."

DANNY GOLDBERG, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ARTEMIS RECORDS:

"I was a hippie, and there were a lot of things I liked about it. But I remember the radical hippies who were saying, 'Music should belong to the people' to Jerry Garcia, and he said 'Where were the people when I was practicing my guitar?'"

TODD RUNDGREN, RECORDING ARTIST AND FOUNDER, PATRONET

"I think what really drove [Napster] was profound ignorance of the rights of people who write a song or book or anything else."

IAN CLARKE, FOUNDER OF FREENET

"Censorship is the attempt to prevent people from communicating, and under that definition, copyright is censorship."

AIMEE MANN, RECORDING ARTIST "It's kids versus the damn musicians, the people you supposedly like, whose music you listen to."

JOHN FLANSBURGH, MEMBER, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

"One thing that's unfortunate about Metallica being the spokesman for the musicians' side of things is that their example is so singularly unusual. It is sort of like the Mighty Thor representing you at the UN."

SHAWN FANNING, CREATOR OF NAPSTER "Fear stems from ignorance, and when a new technology comes out there is some fear, some fighting, and ultimately they learn how to incorporate the technology into their model, and things are settled peacefully." Page 100

Musical Success Stories of the Internet Revolution

If an artist had six songs in the Top 40 at the same time, you would assume that he or she would be a household name. What if that artist was Bassic? In the music world today, the Top 40 goes beyond Casey Kasem to sites like MP3.com where artists can build a fan base, and even sell some music. Bilge Ebiri and Ed Lovett take a look at musicians whose careers were launched by the Internet.

Bassic, who has sold more than 2,000 CDs on MP3.com, is not worried about his music being distributed for free on Napster: "I believe that it comes back to me in the end somehow." Fisher, a duo that used several sites to distribute their music, decided to "take the indie leap of faith and release our own product - just to find out if we totally sucked or not." "In some ways, Red Delicious was a victim of the Net's hype machine. 'The hype somehow turned the labels against us,' adds singer Sara Wallace. 'They've all heard of us, but they don't like anything they haven't found for themselves.' Page 108

Way Cooler than the Grammys

The August issue of Yahoo! Internet Life also announces the nominees for the 3rd Annual Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards (www.yilmusicawards.com). The Awards, featuring performances by Alanis Morissette, David Bowie, Isaac Hayes, DJ Rap, and Aimee Mann, will be presented on Monday, July 24, at Studio 54 in New York City. The Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards pay tribute to well-established artists, up-and-coming bands and acts on the forefront of the Internet revolution, featuring categories including Best Overall Music Site, Best Internet-Only Album and Best Unsigned Artist Online. A sampling:

Best Overall Music Site: Live365.com, Net4Music.com, Sonicnet.com, MP3.com, Wall of Sound Best Internet Only Album: Reeves Gabrels' Ulysses (della Notte); Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live at the Greek; They Might Be Giants' Long Tall Weekend; The Who's The Blues to the Bush; Aimee Mann's Bachelor No.2. Page 114

The Online Fleecing of Seniors As the older generation has discovered the Internet, scam artists have located these "surfers," cashing in on seniors' online inexperience. Alissa Quart looks at some of the rip-offs practiced on retirees along with expert advice to help prevent this growing problem. "Seniors think of the Web as media, and thus close to truth," says Patty Aftab, executive director of CyberAngels, an online volunteer crime-fighting group. "Older people are no longer willing to sit at home doing nothing. They want to keep their minds busy," says Adrienne Oleck, a business-practices lawyer for the AARP. "Use the Web as a fraud-fighting tool: Do keyword searches on the names of the companies and their officers." Page 140

Also in the August Issue...

Mikki Halpin, author of The Geek Handbook, dissects differences in the "new New Economy" and provides a useful chart describing the differences between the Old Geek, The Chic Geek and the New Geek. (Sample pickup line of The Chic Geek: "Wanna come watch my options vest?") Page 138 The revolution takes to the streets as Neal Pollack takes an intimate look at the two leading Internet-based delivery services, Kozmo.com and Urbanfetch. Done in the spirit of George Plmpton's new journalism style, Pollack slides on his bike shorts and rides alongside the fearless folks who ensure that we get our Ben & Jerry's in one hour or less. Page 130 Companies such as Beenz.com offer to pay you to read email and surf the Web. Sound too good to be true? More often than not, the money doesn't add up to a hill of beenz. Page 124

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