Byline: TOM KIRCHOFER Associated Press
BOSTON -- In a move that could hamper the music industry's efforts to thwart Internet bootleggers, the popular Web site Lycos said Monday it is starting a new search service that offers easy access to a half-million high quality recordings.
The search service looks up titles on the Internet that use a technology called MP3, a method of encoding music that allows computer users to transfer an entire album from a Web site in about two hours, and listen it on a Walkman-like player.
All the Web surfer has to do is type in the name of an artist to find links to MP3 files.
The proliferation of MP3 files on …
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