Word: napstering
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...interpret this as Napster getting religion right before the courts flip the switch on the electric chair." ROBERT SCHWARTZ, American lawyer, on the song-swapping company's pledge to block access to copyrighted music after an adverse legal ruling
...Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines. Not that much has happened in music. Sporty Spice has left the Spice Girls, which leaves the group yet another fennel seed short of five-spice powder. And filtering has started: A search for "Oops I Did it Again" on Napster this week found songs by "Brittany," "Brittney," and "Britny" Spears. Great. Just like those bootleg CDs you find in the alleys of Thailand...
AIMSTER With Napster on the ropes, rival getting 20,000 downloads a day. No recount on this one, Mr. Boies...
...Because the name of this game is customer base - the size of a swap meet being its primary virtue - Napster will do what it takes to beat the gavel and stay alive as a brand and as a destination. And with 60-odd million registered users, Napster is heading into purgatory with a pretty strong hand. But technophile record collectors don't seem the kind of folks to hang around patiently until June just so BMG can start taking their money. Not when there's free milk to be had elsewhere...
...Because file-swapping, like nature, seems destined to always find a way. Because decentralized operations like Aimster, BearShare and Gnutella don't have Napster's tragic flaw - those 12 central servers - they're legally bulletproof...