Word: napstering
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...when it comes to getting a little weak-kneed for celebrities - remember when Ted "Cat Scratch Fever" Nugent came to sing the praises of bow hunting? But the scene in the packed hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, to discuss the legality of free-music sites like Napster and MP3.com, may have taken the cake...
According to Zittrain, the creation of services like Napster that allow the free trading of MP3 music files on the Internet have led to calls for tighter restrictions...
...advent of Napster that has caused people, in Oliver Stone fashion, to do something," he added...
...price of a single CD--to have online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks of life...
Suddenly it seems the once radical Robertson is offering a third way between the rigid order of the old world and the chaos of Napster, a chance to make money out of wide but shallow channels of online music and still make a buck or two selling CDs in stores. That should be music to the dinosaurs' ears...