1.	Wouldn't that be wonderful?
2.	It's been two years since the summer of 2000, when Napster was the rage and ordinary people were talking about music in supermarkets and airports. We're still waiting for the killer app that only AOL can produce. They must have thought of it, but in its weakened state, AOL must not be able to persuade the entertainment companies inside AOL-Time-Warner to risk some of their archives on an experiment. But those archives aren't generating revenue, just as the MGM movie archive wasn't making money for the owners of MGM (they had positioned it as a hotel company) when Turner made his offer.
3.	Turner Classic Movies is a great blueprint for the music business they could build out of AOL. The fans know what they want. We understand that we can't have Napster in all its glory. We understand that we have to pay for the music we use. It's too bad that AOL didn't jump on this as soon as the merger with Time-Warner was complete. But it's still not too late. Done right, a plan to distribute music in MP3 format, over the Internet, in conjunction with hardware vendors like Apple, would be a huge moneymaker, and would give AOL continued relevance.
4.	It's still an exciting idea, if they decided to do it, I'd work for them for $1 per year to see it through. In my humble opinion, the logjam over music on the Internet is a big reason that growth is so elusive today in the tech industry.
5.	Dave Winer