Word: napstering
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Sure, Big Music is just using its lawyers to look for partners again, and it won't be long before Napster and the RIAA have worked out a deal that's a little more profitable for labels - and a little less like robbery of intellectual property - that will nudge the music industry ever closer to the Internet...
...would seem. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel, fast becoming the Judge Jackson of free music, declared Napster "enjoined from causing, assisting, facilitating, copying, or otherwise distributing all copyrighted songs or musical compositions...
...spell the end of music merchandising as we know it and the recording industry scrambles to find a new business model, that Akron teen is the least of their worries. The days of the CD are, after all, limited. But while record execs gnash their teeth over MP3s and Napster, the recordable CD has become a fact of life, and the new Philips CDR Mini HiFi system FW-R8is everything the execs were afraid it would...
...Easy enough for 13 million Americans to have done it, making Napster beloved by penny-pinching music lovers and a major headache for record companies and bands. Metallica and the Recording Industry Association of America are suing the site - "Napster hijacked our music without asking... Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads," Ulrich testified. Napster CEO Hank Barry's straight-faced response: "Napster is an Internet directory service... That...
...label approach doesn't play fast and loose with copyright laws. Napster's "directory" model sure does, even if the company claims the fault lies with users, not itself. David Boies, once the government's lead lawyer against Microsoft and now representing Napster against Big Music, wasn't there to tell the committee how he plans to find enough loopholes in the laws to keep Napster from getting stomped by the RIAA...