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Harvard has not yet decided how to respond to a written request from an attorney representing rapper Dr. Dre and rock group Metallica urging university officials to prevent students from accessing the music sharing program Napster...
...than it could have been; as the judge was happy to remind MP3 defendants, he weighed fining the company up to $150,000 per CD, but chose a lower number to reward MP3 for their responsible behavior, relative to other music sites. What would this guy have done to Napster...
...soul will have its day, with Erykah Badu making a welcome return and Sade making a welcome and long-awaited one. As for hip-hop, the Atlanta-based duo Outkast, jazz rapper Guru and rap rocker Everlast are ones to watch. With so much to choose from, Napster never had it so good...
...District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan thought so. He wrote, in an occasionally impassioned 93-page ruling, that "the excitement of ready access to untold quantities of information has blurred in some minds the fact that taking what is not yours and not freely offered to you is stealing." Napster, are you listening...
READY, AIM...FILE! America Online saw its ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM for short) hijacked last week by a new and fiendishly clever program called Aimster. Aimster takes AIM's popular buddy-list feature and adds a file-swapping function a la the controversial Napster. To date, AOL has made no move against Aimster, but it's clear that the would-be future parent of Warner Music (and of TIME) will have some tough choices ahead. Aimster is available at www.aimster.com at least...