Word: napstering
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...Enter MTV. That is, MTV Networks, which also includes VH1 and CMT. Unlike Napster, RealNetworks and Yahoo!, these guys are in the business of picking new music and getting listeners to like it. The key to the whole service, the thing that makes automatic sense, is that you don't use Urge to download albums or songs, but rather, to download playlists...
...does not undermine rights because it simply extends the range within which an individual can watch programs sent to his home, in the same way that making a video recording for personal use does. Slingbox specifically avoids the P2P (peer-to-peer) reach associated with music-sharing services like Napster, which got in trouble by allowing users to share material illegally. "We allow only one stream at a time,'' he notes. That is, a Slingbox routes a TV signal only to its owner. Users cannot configure it to spread the signal out to other recipients. Still, the temptations are strong...
...available online. Most have, though a few big names, including the Beatles and Radiohead, remain on the sidelines. By the company's own estimates, it made five times more tracks available in Europe than any other label. The strategy had some external help. Legal action in 2001 shut down Napster, the P2P service that was the granddaddy of illegal filesharing. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that companies whose software enables the trading of free music can be held liable for theft. Levy says the industry's legal crackdown is "paying off in raising awareness ? that stealing music...
...Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late ’90s, when Napster entered the scene, it was so efficient at music swapping that academic uses of limited university bandwidth were hindered, so many schools (Harvard included) set out policies which gave preference to web and e-mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping end-to-end, however, has certain technophiles...
...much of Microsoft's own protected content doesn't play on the system, either. For nearly a year, Microsoft's Windows Media division has promoted subscription content that you can play on your PC or on a portable player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed up is that none of those tracks play on the Xbox. Microsoft should have been careful to make sure that this content would...