Word: napstering
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HARWICH, Mass.--This here is Napster country. Harwich, on the elbow of Cape Cod, is home to cranberry bogs, pristine New England shore and Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster Music Community. Last winter, at the beginning of what has become a Napster media blitz, I squealed with pride when I first saw my high school classmate pictured in U.S. News and World Report. I knew Napster--and the sweet kid I suffered through high school calculus with--had made it to the big time early last spring when he was featured in Rolling Stone. They don't just put anybody...
...reasoning goes about like this: think of some of this year's biggest business stories--AOL's merging with Time Warner, Vivendi's acquiring Seagram, Napster's hijacking the music industry. They are all, in some sense, about devising more and creative ways to suck up bandwidth. Words, music, video, interactive TV--they're all data that have to go through the electronic plumbing of the network...
DAVID BOIES Napster lawyer wins a temporary stay to keep Web music site up. (So do your downloading quickly...
Many legal experts are calling Napster the underdog in this week's legal face-off. In addition to Judge Patel's initial ruling in the case, the music industry was heartened by a New York federal court decision in April that MP3.com another music-sharing service, had violated music copyrights. MP3.com ended up settling with some of the record companies suing it, agreeing to pay some $100 million and to hand over licensing fees in the future. But even if the record companies defeat Napster, that will not solve the problem they created when they digitized music in the first...
Hollywood fat cats, be warned. If you've been relishing the sight of record executives squirming in the grip of Napster, enjoy it while you can; you may soon be squirming yourselves. Using a new technology called DivX, video buffs can now swap copies of The Matrix online the same way audiophiles trade Metallica singles...