Word: napstering
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...their work. All kinds of technologies which could have been used for copyright infringement—mp3 players, certainly, but perhaps also things like the World Wide Web—were popularized largely free from those sorts of legal worries. Certain early peer-to-peer file sharing services like Napster still found themselves in deep water because they used central servers which, the courts decided, played a more profound role in copyright infringement than merely as an enabling technology. Still, so long as a product had certain features which meant that the company running the service never directly contributed...
Teens aren't inclined to pay for stuff they can get free--especially off the Internet. "We're too cheap," says a 17-year-old Redwood City, Calif., high school student. Thanks to such post-Napster sites as BitTorrent and Soulseek that offer free peer-to-peer file sharing, the teenager and her friends don't have to buy music, movies, games and TV shows online. Getting away with illegal downloading to cell phones is so easy that mobile piracy is denting the $4 billion mobile-content business. Ringtone shoplifting is one of the costliest abuses, accounting for an estimated...
...iPod—not a Sony “Network Walkman,” nor a “Dell DJ Ditty,” nor even a “MobiBlu DAH.” There are other music stores, of course—Sony has their own, Napster has been rebranded from a dotcom-era law-defiant hotbed of copyright criminality into a legal market for music, and even Walmart has entered the fray. And you can play the songs from these stores on any mp3 player you’d like from Sony, Dell, or Creative?...
...Williams makes the Most Spirited Top 10 Another plus for Harvard: Boston is deemed one of the Top 10 music scenes Extra credit California state schools UCLA, Berkeley and San Diego all make the Top 10 Best euphemism: Top 10 Fun-Loving Schools (e.g., Holy Cross and Bucknell) Free Napster access at 12 schools, including U.N.C. and Vanderbilt...
Looking back over the past few years, Fanning has no regrets. "Everything that was done with Napster was a learning experience," he says. "What was learned helped create some of the inspiration for what Snocap would become." The record companies are hoping Fanning's lesson will...