Word: napstering
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...trouble censoring his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: fending off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced--and subsequently revolutionized--the music world...
Gunter Thielen didn't expect to play peacemaker when he took over as chief executive of Germany's Bertelsmann in August 2002. The company was laden with $3.5 billion in debt and a slew of dubious new assets, including the controversial online file-sharing site Napster and the now defunct Rosie magazine in the U.S. Still, Thielen's biggest challenge was an internal one: Thomas Middelhoff, the flamboyant CEO Thielen replaced, left behind a simmering crisis between the $22 billion firm and its key owners, the Mohn family. Reinhard Mohn, the 82-year-old patriarch, was so upset by Middelhoff...
While students at Duke University get free iPods and Pennsylvania State University students have free Napster, every now and then, the powers that be at Harvard get together to sprinkle some hi-tech fairy dust around campus. This is one of those times. The University is about to be ushered into the digital age; thank you, Harvard College Libraries (HCL), for cutting the chains...
...future no matter which way we turn, why the apathy? It could just be a “party while we still can, because it’ll all be over soon” attitude, but somehow I doubt that. I think it’s deeper. During the Napster lawsuits in the late 90’s I made a $20 bet with my father that 18 months later, people would still be able to download copyrighted music easily and freely on the Internet. I won, and now it’s been something like four or five years...
Some surmised the anonymous contributor was Napster co-founder Shawn Parker, but Zuckerberg said those rumors were false...