Extract from Affinity 4: 8th September, 1996
MP3 Files: The New Alternative to Releasing Software?

MP3 Files: The New Alternative to Releasing Software?
by Infinite Sadness

Now I'm sure most of you  have  been  seeing  a  lot of things popping up about
these MP3 music files, which is a new way to record music and it is quite a bit
smaller than recording Wave files.  It also claims to have better sound quality
than Wave files.  But can we really call this the new wave in warez??

I think we can, for one this new kind of pirating is similar in what  has  been
happening  with  computer  software for over a decade.  This way of pirating is
the next generation or you could call  it  the next step in the pirating scene.
Ofcourse, it has already grown to emense popularity and it seems you can't even
go into #Exceed or any of the other offer channel without  seeing  releases  by
CDA,  DAC or RDM.  I wouldn't doubt by the end of the year you will be seeing a
great deal more of these  music  groups  and  more  competition in this type of
pirating.  It'll soon be a tough scene to release in and there will be hundreds
of releases being released each month.

I would say also in the near future the offer channels with the music  releases
will  become  even  more  popular then they are now, and I think this scene can
actually become as big as the warez scene and it's going so huge and so quickly
that it's amazing.  It's definitely a  prodigy  brought to the scene and it has
lots of followers supporting it already.

I think the people who are into this type of releasing in the scene  know  it's
going  to  be  going somewhere and has a definite future in the scene.  For the
people in the warez scene who don't  think  much or don't like what these music
groups are doing, they can't do much  about  it  because  the  music  scene  is
growing rapidly and can't be stopped.  So this is definitely something to watch
because  it  seems  that this type of pirating is catching on and it is already
making a name for itself, so grab an MP3 file today!