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...wins because they gain an even larger head start over their competition from “Napster 2.0” and other similar pay-per-song services. Pepsi wins because we buy more Pepsi. And we win because we get free music without the risks and hassles of Kazaa...
Matt Morello, a Yale senior, created Yale Record Exchange (YRX) to fill the void left by the crackdown on Kazaa, a popular music sharing website that has been challenged on copyright issues...
...Unlike Kazaa, which allows members to download files off each other’s computers, YRX lists the titles of members’ songs to allow individuals to exchange and copy each other?...
Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...according to the Lycos internet service, it took only a year for the top five words searched on the Net to revert from “Nostradamus, World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden, New York City, Terrorism” to “KaZaA, Dragonball, Tattoos, West Nile Virus, Britney Spears.” The Michael Jackson business is a sign, not a shift, of cultural trends. Still, with two years and a bit behind us, the return of popular news culture to its previous depths should alarm us, for the simple reason that politics has not followed suit...