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...statement issued after Friday's hearing, Napster CEO Hank Barry said, "We proposed a workable injunction that follows the 9th Circuit ruling and keeps the Napster community together while we are working to settle this case and transition to our new membership-based service...
...boosterish corporate leaders--every earnings report is upbeat, all bad news is only temporary--Napster CEO Hank Barry is refreshingly morose. The legal system is poised to squash Napster, making it impossible to continue operating, he says grimly. To stay alive, Napster will need the cooperation of the big record labels--the very labels it has tormented until now. And, oh, by the way, Napster also needs a major technological overhaul so it can sort through the millions of files shared on its site every day and filter out the illegal ones. "Welcome to my world," Barry says with...
...putting a concrete offer on the table," Hank Barry, Napster's chief executive, said, adding that talks along these lines with the record companies have been proceeding apace since last summer. Indeed, in November, Napster cut a deal with Bertelsmann to finance just such a transformation to a pay-for-play model...
...statement released yesterday, Napster CEO Hank Barry acknowledged that the service could be shut down before trial...
...NAPSTER? When Bertelsmann boss Thomas Middelhoff announced that the free music service would start charging a subscription fee by summer, a lot of people were surprised--including Napster CEO Hank Barry. "We haven't decided on a time schedule at all," Barry told Reuters. So what's holding it up? Before Napster can charge for downloads, it has to cut licensing-fee deals with most of the record companies (not just sugar daddy Bertelsmann), many of which are still suing Napster for "pirating" their music. As long as the labels prefer punitive damages to a piece...