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Napster also offered to pay $1 billion over the next five years to major record labels, songwriters, and independent artists to settle claims of copyright infringement...
...some doubt that even altering Napster will solve the problem of copyright infringement via file-sharing Internet programs...
...week after a U.S. appeals court affirmed in principle a circuit judge's order that Napster dismantle its "vicarious copyright infringement" business model - accompanied by a mad rush of users to its site - Napster figures to strike a deal while the iron is hot. And before its aghast users find someplace else...
...Each is more or less what Napster was to Mp3.com; each fills the same basic demand - free, virtual music - yet each adds some additional legal twist that makes it even harder for the Big Five's copyright lawyers to lay their hands on them. Pending the judge's rejiggering of her injunction order, the suits appear to have caught up to Napster; how will they catch up to Gnutella? And what happens when somebody transplants their server farm to Antigua...
While the salivating ears of millions of college students wait, their darling Napster is locked in battle with the monolithic U.S. government. Napster, the largest online file-sharing service, is battling for its very existence, accused of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale. And boy, are the record companies pissed. But, interestingly, they are not as hotheaded and downright angry as the Napster regulars...