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Whether or not such new fee-based services will earn the following that Napster had at the height of its popularity remains to be seen. Among Harvard students, the reaction to last week's announcements is varied...
...forces and, yes, interests. Contrary to McCain, these clashing interests are good. The American idea has never been to suppress them but to pit them against each other and allow them to proliferate. The more they proliferate, the more they check and balance each other. Coal fights natural gas. Napster fights the record industry. Nader fights everybody. No one interest becomes paramount...
...Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, New Zealand and Swiss versions of the website are available. There are practically no legal restrictions, especially since a San Francisco court recently declared the auction service could not be held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay is a bottomless treasure trove of news items - from the boy who tried to sell his soul...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...Napster has been trying to keep its users around long enough to kick off its own pay-for-play system in June with an investment by Bertelsmann. Now, with an evidently impatient Bertelsmann getting in on the MusicNet deal, Napster will be a beggar at that banquet - executives at the new service are already imposing stringent conditions about security and legality on Napster's eventual inclusion...