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...record industry's public enemy No. 1 has become its new best friend. Shawn Fanning, the teenage techie turned Internet icon who at 18 began designing Napster in his Northeastern college dorm room--firing the opening salvo in what would become a revolution in the music industry--has launched a company to, of all things, protect intellectual property. Snocap aims to solve the very problem that file-sharing service Napster helped create, by identifying copyrighted music and preventing it from being swapped unless the user pays. And get this: 27% of Snocap's employees are Napster veterans; chief operating officer...
Fanning incorporated Snocap two weeks after the Supreme Court forced Napster into bankruptcy in September 2002 for facilitating copyright infringement. (Roxio bought the Napster name, and Fanning is no longer affiliated with it.) The June Supreme Court decision holding companies liable for illegal file sharing by their users suddenly gave the recording industry more negotiating leverage with illegal file-sharing services. And with more listeners eager to find legal ways to download music, Snocap offers a viable alternative...
Souter’s opinion found evidence of intent to aid copyright infringement from both companies, following the collapse of popular file-sharing service Napster. Their revenue was dependent on their popularity among copyright infringers, he argued, and neither of them tried to develop a means by which copyrighted material could be filtered...
...With this service, you don't have to purchase individual tracks before transferring them to your portal music player. Rather, you pay a flat subscription fee-$7 a month or $60 a year-for unlimited downloads. (Of course, if you close your account, the files will no longer play.) Napster To Go and RealNetworks' Rhapsody To Go both work the same way, and like Yahoo's service, cater to the same crowd-namely, consumers who own an MP3 player made by a company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list of compatible...
...cannot wipe out piracy. But you can minimize its bottom-line impact. Just as music companies, rightly or wrongly, made peace with MP3 file-sharing services like Napster, so must manufacturers from the U.S. heartland learn strategies for coping?by developing new revenue models that emphasize service offerings around intellectual property. Such models may include lowered pricing for a developing market; universal licensing schemes to sell music, films, games and software on a subscription basis; or emphasizing revenues that flow from service and support rather than product, a model that has been successfully exploited by the Linux community...