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...case may make an equally bold statement about what intellectual property rights will exist in the new economy. If the ruling goes the industry's way, as many expect, it could bring an end to the brief era in which all sorts of music were readily available for free download on the Internet. It could, conceivably, mean the end of Napster...
Napster is, of course, the wildly popular file-sharing service whose 20 million users have downloaded some half a billion songs--most of them copyrighted, all of them free. To the music-industry plaintiffs in this week's suit--including Warner Records, which, like this magazine, is a unit of Time Warner--services like Napster are simply high-tech piracy. The industry is worried that in the future, only a few CDs will be sold; everyone else will download from the Net. In this suit, the Recording Industry Association of America and 18 record labels are asking Judge Marilyn Hall...
...those enterprising programmers, DivX squishes movies down to fewer than 700 megabytes, small enough to fit on a CD. To watch a movie in DivX format, all you need is the DivX codec program, which tells your computer how to decompress the file, and a DivX player. You can download both player and codec for free on DivX websites such as www.gdivx.com and divx.ctw.cc...
...able to print it right off the screen without any intermediary transaction. But in order to keep the page-turner scrolling, King fans will have to pony up a dollar per installment - and hope that their fellow readers are equally honorable: If less than 75 percent of people who download pay up, King will simply stop posting chapters, and no one will find out what happens. And that might even include King, who hasn't written the book yet and won't bother to finish it if the public doesn't play along...
...extremely worrisome development for the book industry. King says he likes Simon & Schuster, but "The Plant" represents a Cujo-size bite into the hand that has fed him so far. Unlike his previous online release, "Riding the Bullet," a story that readers had to pay up front to download from Simon & Schuster's web site last March, "The Plant" will appear on King's own site, cutting out the middleman altogether. Publishing houses rely on blockbusters ? la King to finance the development of up-and-coming talent, and the prospect of cultivating such writers only to see them...