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...clear if Napster's efforts will be sufficient to convince the record label plaintiffs to drop their lawsuit...
...future have changed the music business, if only by showing it what changes are coming. But having seemingly failed to beat the Big Five, Napster now has to wonder what 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...
...currently, when a CD is purchased, the majority of the proceeds go to the record label that produces the CD instead of to the artist. This system of compensation may have made sense when the only means of distributing music was through the sale of cassettes and CDs--the companies that made music portable deserved a slice of the pie. But as technology has progressed, the vested interest of the recording industry in maintaining the status quo threatens to undermine new and better ways of distributing music...
Rockers who run their own labels are often in search of the Next Small Thing--acts that can appeal to cult audiences first, and if they go on to something bigger, fine. At the Drive-In hails from El Paso, Texas, and is slowly building a larger--though not necessarily large--following. The group's new CD, Relationship of Command, released on the rap group Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, deftly combines punk ferocity with artful though sometimes inscrutable lyrics. Like heavyweight champs, the band works the head and the body and scores points in both areas. Drummer Steve Shelley...
...instead by Department of Transportation regulations, which offer only guidelines for what a carrier must do. That boils down to rebooking you on another one of its flights or endorsing your ticket over to another carrier. But if weather is the cause of the problem, the airline can just label it an act of God and make you sit and wait for the delayed plane to take off, no matter how long that may be. "Airplane flights are complex events," says Terry Trippler, president of onetravel.com a travel website. "These days, passengers must begin to appreciate that there is some...