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The pressure he felt came from a pent-up demand for digital music in the late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net...
Those issues--what Fanning knew and when he knew it--are now integral to the legal proceedings that will determine the future of digital music and perhaps the future of all industries that trade in intellectual property (see following story). Attorneys for the record industry have subpoenaed Fanning's e...
He lives frugally--as do more than a few billionaires in Silicon Valley--sharing a two-bedroom San Mateo apartment and a 6-ft.-wide-screen Mitsubishi television with co-Napsterite Sean Parker. The tables are strewn with old pizza boxes, empty Coke cans and, Napster notwithstanding, actual digital discs...
The major record labels are also exploring ways of making the music experience they provide for paying customers deeper and richer. "For decades, we've been artificially constrained by the format of vinyl, by the two sides that play on a record player," says Charles Jennings, CEO of Supertracks, a...
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requires that Internet service providers take reasonable steps to put an end to copyright violations when the copyright owners alert them to the violations. Under that act, repeat individual offenders--including university students--can be banned permanently from their network.