Word: napstering
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...Long Goodbye H Napster, the file-swapping website, suffered a likely death blow when a U.S. court blocked Bertelsmann...
Some of Middelhoff's recent deals have been less successful. Bertelsmann invested heavily in e-commerce, including a stake in the booksellers Barnes & Noble.com in the U.S. and bol.com in Europe. He also put $30 million into Napster, which he hoped to turn from an illegal song-sharing website to a legitimate portal for selling music. The site is currently being retooled for its new mission. Last year, Bertelsmann admitted having ?890 million in Internet startup losses. Another questionable buy was the $550 million or so Middlehoff paid for the U.S. magazines Fast Company and Inc. just as the Internet...
...some ways, copyright holders have gained legal power over the past few years. Major courtroom battles over copyright have been fought in recent years over Napster and other music sharing and video sharing programs, and previous courts have all ruled in favor of the copyright holders...
...year. For now, Johansen is safe, Manshaus says, because "Jon hasn't done anything for pecuniary reasons." Whatever his motives, the Motion Picture Association - which notified ?kokrim about DECSS - has highly pecuniary reasons to fight such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses...
...When Napster filed for bankruptcy last week - a technical move that was part of its takeover by German media giant Bertelsmann - it was music to record executives' ears. It meant that the threat unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning, who had 60 million people using his software to download free music, was finally contained. When Napster returns it will be a "legitimate" corporate site, with orderly, paying customers. That's the plan, but containing Napster is not the same as controlling the file-swapping community. The music industry has tried everything from lawsuits to substitutes, launching sites...