Word: napstering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...control freak about my music collection, and staying on top of it is getting harder and harder. It was bad enough, a couple of years ago, trying to alphabetize a couple of hundred CDs. But then, like a lot of kids my age, I started doing Napster. Seven hundred downloads later, my collection is hopelessly Balkanized. To listen to a Moby track, I can stick a CD on the stereo. But to hear the remix, I have to run downstairs, fire up the PC and select the right MP3. I tried ripping all my CDs onto my computer...
...life (about four hours), and each is a first-generation device--which means imperfections are rife. The 6-GB Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs takes ages to boot up. The 6-GB Personal Jukebox 100 from Remote Solutions only takes CD rips (which means you can't transfer any Napster files you might have stored on your PC). And the 9-GB Neo 25 from SSI is a pain to navigate, forcing you to scroll through every track on a tiny LCD screen...
DAVID BOIES Slays Microsoft, aids Napster and defends Gore with plainspoken ways. Not bad for one year...
This is the guy who embarrassed Bill Gates on the stand. The guy who wrestled $1.17 billion from drug companies for fixing vitamin prices, who defeated the nation's biggest auction houses and now represents everyone from Calvin Klein to Napster. Yeah, the guy in the rumpled blue suit and black sneakers...
...wine cellar. But family is big with him. Literally. He has six children from three marriages and takes the kids on cross-country drives in a Jeep Wrangler every few years. Three of his adult offspring work with him at his law firm. He rode to the rescue of Napster after his kids told him how cool it was. Says his wife Mary, a busy antitrust lawyer: "We talked about forming a firm together but decided we preferred romance." She's clearly a fan. Seeing him in the courtroom, she says, is like seeing "Baryshnikov at the ballet...