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...users, Napster has become another appliance, like a toaster or washing machine. Call it the music appliance: log on, download, play songs. The simplicity of the program is part of its genius. Since he took only three months to write the source code, Fanning says he didn't have time to make it more complicated. He had to learn Windows programming in addition to Unix server code, which he had taught himself. It is exceedingly rare for one programmer to excel at client and server applications, but Fanning had no choice. "I had to focus on functionality, to keep...
...gladiators themselves? They tend to adhere to one of two rival information-age ideologies: the info-anarchists' rallying cry that "information wants to be free" or the entertainment industry's insistence that content creators must get paid or there will be no new art to download...
...that many feel was ripe for revolutionary change. Napster makes music available a la carte, one tune at a time--a welcome relief to fans tired of having to pay album prices to get their hands on one or two good songs. It also unlocks--and makes available for download--the greatest music library in the history of the world, much of it all but forgotten by the major labels. A few clicks of that mouse, and in streams bootleg Led Zeppelin or Ani DiFranco's instrumental version of the old communist anthem Internationale or--Joe Lieberman, take note--Hebrew...
...think it would be very hard for any student to continue to be educated here without network access, so I think this is the point of maximum vulnerability students face in using Napster to download copyrighted materials illegally," Lewis wrote...
...obviously disappointed Harvard didn't follow the pattern set by 40 percent of top universities that all banned it," King said. "There's no question that every university understands that Napster's being used to download copyrighted material...