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The Recording Industry Association of America announced a plan to let music lovers download hits from the Internet by Christmas 1999 because:

  1. It doesn't like the popular MP3 format for compressed digital audio.

  2. It plans to phase out music CDs over the next year.

  3. The plan will eliminate high packaging costs and allow songs to be sold for 10 cents apiece.

  4. It fears competition from Microsoft's WinMusic 2000.

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Explanation

The RIAA opposed the MP3 format because it enabled widespread music piracy without artist compensation. Their announcement was a strategic move to offer a legal digital download alternative that they could control, unlike the unregulated MP3 format.