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Micropayments are just starting to take hold. On the New York Times website, today's paper is free, but last month's story about the presidential Inauguration costs $2.50, charged to your credit card. At Sony's music website, $1.99 lets you download singles like Rage Against the Machine's Ashes in the Fall. Internet forecasters expect more and more sites to impose smaller and smaller fees--in some cases mere fractions of a penny...
MP3s and other files downloaded from Harvard computers by non-Harvard Internet users are one example of information that moves in the outbound direction. Harvard students using Napster and other music-sharing Internet services to download files weren't causing a problem--but users who get their music from Harvard computers were taking up enough bandwidth to slow the network...
Although Davis said that at least 95 percent of the Harvard population uses the network primarily to download from the Internet, he said that students who need to send information in the outbound direction should be accommodated...
...court also justified the injunction by anticipating that users would rush to download songs before trial if the service were to remain open...
...this stealing? The answer is, yes, I know, that TK million people downloaded songs from Napster last weekend, which is theory represents TK million in lost revenue for record companies. (See Frank Pellegrini's accompanying story for the actual figures. TK, by the way, is journalistic shorthand for "To Come.") On the other hand, c'mon: A lot of those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items...