Word: napstering
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...potential cloud over his hit parade is the Napster phenomenon. If people can get copyrighted material for free off the Internet, the bonds will be less valuable. But Pullman, 39, is confident that the entertainment and publishing industries will find some way to keep collecting money for their artists' work. His bigger problem may be maintaining his lead in selling Bowie-style bonds. He's in a legal battle with Prudential Securities and a company run by music-industry veteran Charles Koppleman, whom Pullman charges with trying to steal his ideas...
...anticipation for Kid A is so fierce that every track was leaked to Napster weeks before the album's release. Says Yorke: "The cool thing about Napster is that it encourages bootlegging, it encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten...
...Meanwhile, the Napster saga goes on and on. It isn't the first time the recording industry wanted to crack down on technology: as the excellent book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (written by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton) notes in its chapter on the history of the radio DJ, record companies in the '40s were initally skeptical about the power of radio as a promotional tool, and were afraid it would take away sales. Similarly, when FM stereo was introduced, they were likewise afraid the quality of home taping would make LPs redundant. And yet these obviously...
...even if Harvard had banned Napster, the upgrade would still have been needed...
...network bandwidth needs have been increasing regardless of Napster use, so that we would need this upgrade even if there was no Napster usage," Osterberg wrote...