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...year. For now, Johansen is safe, Manshaus says, because "Jon hasn't done anything for pecuniary reasons." Whatever his motives, the Motion Picture Association - which notified ?kokrim about DECSS - has highly pecuniary reasons to fight such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses...
...When Napster filed for bankruptcy last week - a technical move that was part of its takeover by German media giant Bertelsmann - it was music to record executives' ears. It meant that the threat unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning, who had 60 million people using his software to download free music, was finally contained. When Napster returns it will be a "legitimate" corporate site, with orderly, paying customers. That's the plan, but containing Napster is not the same as controlling the file-swapping community. The music industry has tried everything from lawsuits to substitutes, launching sites...
With the music industry asleep at the wheel, Shawn Fanning, a first-year at Northeastern, drew up a bit of technology history of his own. While plodding through his first-year classes, the young Cape Cod native was programming a little ditty called Napster, an application that promised to make MP3 distribution easy and fast. Turns out he was way ahead of more than just the rich executives at Warner and BMG. While students eagerly traded the latest Britney songs, Harvard’s Internet connection started feeling the weight of a whole new breed of traffic. Students weren?...
...Napster entered the courtroom, things started slowing down there, too. Getting your hands on the latest MP3s got harder. The company instituted a loose filtering system which users managed to circumvent. Eventually Napster came up with something foolproof, and the fun was over...
TRADING PLACES Bertelsmann wants to turn Napster into a for-pay service (having bought it for $8 million last week), but the free-music file-sharing revolution Napster launched is still going strong, thanks to a fleet of wannabes. Here, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, are the top five (by unique users...