Word: napstering
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Judge Marilyn H. Patel is set to bring the gavel - and the curtain - down on Napster Friday as the online music-swapping service and its major-label pursuers get together in her courtroom for one last dance...
...melody could linger awhile. Having had her first stop-the-music order from last July - which gave Napster just 48 hours to strip its site of all avenues of "vicarious copyright infringement" - sent back for minor revisions by an appeals court, Patel may be looking for a more lasting solution this time around...
...There'll be Friday's hearings, in which Napster and Big Music go over their cases one more time. Patel may issue her revised injunction directly from the bench, and it's widely expected to be nasty, brutish and short for the Napsterians. Then, assuming Patel rules as expected, the music companies must present Napster with a list of all the songs they want removed - that could take a couple of days. And Patel herself has scheduled a mediation session between the two sides, set for Wednesday...
...Anybody else think Napster just might have a March surprise planned? The site has already announced plans to transform itself into a pay-for-play service in July. Yet in the months since it scored a big cash investment from erstwhile litigant BMG (courtesy of parent Bertelsmann) it's been mummer than mum about how the project is actually progressing...
...keep the site in the headlines and the users flocking to the service to get in a few more downloads before the free music stops. Now the site is up to 64 million registered users - about a fourth of the U.S. population, to put it in perspective. And Napster knows that not too many of them will be sticking around for the strictly legal New Artist Program...