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...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...
...Circuit Court of Appeals left little doubt Wednesday that Napster as we know it is dead, ruling that U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's injunction against the service would stand, with a little retooling. In a 58-page ruling, the three-judge panel said that Napster must stop trading in copyrighted material and may be held liable for "vicarious copyright infringement." Napster must also prevent users from gaining access to copyrighted content through its lists of songs archived by the service's users...
...Napster's legal leg - explicated in court by none other than David Boies, who is now officially on a losing streak - was that it was only giving away software; what mischievous users did with the software was not Napster's problem. It's Napster's problem now, thanks to the appeals court, and as soon as the retooled injunction comes through - and the case finishes its inevitable further travels through the courts - Napster will likely have to shut its doors. (Fearing just such a development, Napster users downloaded some 250 million songs over the weekend...
...Buck says he's not worked up about Napster, Aimster and all the other file-sharing service that have the music industry so concerned. "I don't have to make money any more. But some of my friends who aren't as secure in their careers are worried." He also thinks that the Internet, by providing small acts an outlet to have their music heard, will be the source of musical innovation in the future."Every new thing that's happened in pop music has not happened on a major label," he says. "Sam Phillips and Sun Records, Sugar Hill...
...oldies) and asked to love everything in it? On the other hand, it must also be at least a year since I've had the thrill of discovering a toe-tapping tune from an unknown artist completely by accident. This is what happens when you enter the world of Napster and MP3s. You tend to play it safe, downloading artists you know or songs you remember from childhood. It eventually gets stale...