Word: napstering
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...more people listened to more music than ever before," says Jay Berman, chairman of the I.F.P.I. "We just weren't getting paid for it." In other words, the party reconvened at a free establishment down the street. That place is not Napster or any one of the dozens of free online music-file-swapping services like Morpheus that sprang up after the Big Music labels had Napster shut down by the courts. That place is your home...
...delivering those services--and doing so at a profit--is proving a vastly more complex business proposition than anyone imagined. As the ongoing battle over music and video downloads suggests (think Napster), success in a broadband world requires solving complex questions about copyrights and digital encryption. Few executives, even at AOL Time Warner's movie and music divisions, are ready to open their treasure troves to the threat of piracy in an online, on-demand world. The broadband business also requires AOL to pay a cable or DSL provider for access to the pipes that reach customers' homes--at least...
WHERE IS HE NOW? Lead counsel for the major movie studios suing several Napster clones, he could end up defending Hillary if an appeals court revives a dismissed defamation suit filed by Gennifer Flowers...
...stage for acting out the same old stories? Does its existence manufacture entirely new desires? Or does it encourage impulses that otherwise might not find an outlet? On a mundane level, the last hypothesis seems true. As is often pointed out, most people who have illegally pirated songs off Napster or borrowed a copy of Microsoft Word would never walk into a store and physically steal merchandise...
...Napster case is just a prequel. The movie business was somewhat insulated from Internet piracy because digitized films used to take hours, even days, to download and even then were too murky and jerky to watch. But due to advances in data compression technology, and the spread of faster broadband connections, video distribution over the Internet is becoming more practical. Now, digitized recordings of content ranging from 30-minute TV sitcoms to two-hour Academy Award winning films are flying around in cyberspace, aided by free file-sharing programs like Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa...