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...Johnny Deep at Aimster insists his service is legally watertight because it's completely decentralized - and the appeals court made a very clear distinction that a site isn't responsible for copyright infringement if it has no way to monitor or stop it. Most of the other sites - Gnutella, BearShare and the rest - look to have that same built-in protection...
Music sharing is alive and well on the Internet, no matter what happens in the courtrooms of San Francisco. The pioneering file-sharing software programs, Napster and Gnutella, have given birth to an impressive array of hybrids and clones. There's Napigator, with its headphone-wearing reptile logo; BearShare, featuring a teddy with headphones; Newtella, starring a newt with...you guessed it. The whole scene is starting to look like a Muppet Show special sponsored by Koss...
...services. And Napster's (original) headphone-clad cat looms so large that if you shut the service down, you are effectively sending users from a Virgin Megastore the size of Manhattan into dozens of poky vinyl-enthusiast stores that have no way of communicating with one another. Even though Gnutella clones (like Gnotella and Gnucleus) share the same networks, the technology still segregates users into temporary 10,000-person groups. And those users can forget about sharing with the geeks over on Freenet, which is highly specialized and built on a different technology altogether. Napster-ites need to shift...
...future lies in joining them. Mp3.com bought legitimacy from the Big Five and tried to become its own mini-label, never to be heard from again. Now, as Napster tries to put its bad-boy days behind it, the line on the other side of the law is forming: Gnutella, Aimster, Napigator, BearShare and any number of others. Like they say about roaches, for every one you see, there's a hundred in the walls...
...each adds some additional legal twist that makes it even harder for the Big Five's copyright lawyers to lay their hands on them. Pending the judge's rejiggering of her injunction order, the suits appear to have caught up to Napster; how will they catch up to Gnutella? And what happens when somebody transplants their server farm to Antigua...