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...first alternative, the record companies will individually put up their own competing subscription sites, which will be so disastrous for everyone that the record companies will look to today's digital music anarchy with nostalgia. Not only would users have to subscribe (at a similar cost) to five major download sites, but to download a track, say, a new Moby single, they'd have to first figure out which label Moby is on, then register as a paying user at that label's download site. Hardly a good solution to the Napster problem...
...like "American Pie" by Don McLean. That, it seems, is the implication of the huge agreement announced on Halloween by Napster and the German giant of the media world, Bertelsmann Music Group. In a nutshell, Napster has agreed to clean up its act and charge users a subscription to download songs by Bertelsmann artists, in return for sharing profits with the German label and its artists. Forget the presidential election, forget the sequencing of the human genome, forget that space station thing. This announcement is the piece of news from the year 2000 that will affect your life most...
Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...
Like AT&T, with its shrinking long-distance business, and any number of one-technology companies before it, Xerox is caught in what business gurus call a paradigm shift. And it is desperately trying to figure a way out. As white collars increasingly rely on e-mail and download documents from the Net, fewer copies are being made each year, and sales of machines are nearly flat. At the same time, traditional analog copiers are being replaced by souped-up, hybrid digital devices plugged into a computer network and capable of copying, printing and scanning. At the high-tech, high...
...lobbying presence in the "other" Washington. Now they are grasping the importance of having influence directly inside the Senate. Issues like Internet taxation and H1-B visas for overseas tech workers just keep cropping up, and the technology itself moves too fast. "Not many Senators know what a software download is," says Alex Alben, Real's vice president of government affairs. With the tech-savvy Cantwell and Gorton, that's not an issue. What could matter is which software they download...