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...most surrounded musicians at the party appeared to be Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who with his anti-Napster campaign has become almost as controversial as Eminem. He chatted easily and confidently, one of the few rockers equally at ease on C-Span...
...press conference held on Tuesday, the popular music-sharing internet site Napster announced that it will stop offering free service by the summer, moving instead to a fee-based pricing plan...
...Napster also offered to pay $1 billion over the next five years to major record labels, songwriters, and independent artists to settle claims of copyright infringement...
...Each is more or less what Napster was to Mp3.com; each fills the same basic demand - free, virtual music - yet 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...
...This time, as then, some sort of capitulation is inevitable. But while Napster is right about public opinion being on its side - there are a lot of folks out there who say they'd be quite willing to pay for the unparalleled selection and convenience Napster offers, even if they're lying - Big Music is not an elected official. And as long as their lawyers keep winning, they're still on the high side of the negotiating table...