Word: napstering
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...Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, New Zealand and Swiss versions of the website are available. There are practically no legal restrictions, especially since a San Francisco court recently declared the auction service could not be held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay is a bottomless treasure trove of news items - from the boy who tried to sell his soul...
...Parading before the committee to take the side of Napster and its ilk were former Eagle Don Henley and former Public Enemy Chuck D, who spoke to Napster fans before the hearing at a rally Monday evening. And in Washington to kowtow to the music establishment was Ted Nugent, a congressional-hearings favorite (though more for his bow-hunting prowess than "Cat Scratch Fever") and EMI executive Ken Berry...
...Vivendi Universal, for unfairly locking her into a long-term deal, won't be there. Olivia DeHavilland, the mid-century movie goddess who cracked the studio system with a similar suit in 1945, has since passed on. But Henley, in particular, wants to use the rise and fall of Napster as a jumping-off point for a larger debate about artists' rights and the traditional label system...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...Napster has been trying to keep its users around long enough to kick off its own pay-for-play system in June with an investment by Bertelsmann. Now, with an evidently impatient Bertelsmann getting in on the MusicNet deal, Napster will be a beggar at that banquet - executives at the new service are already imposing stringent conditions about security and legality on Napster's eventual inclusion...