Word: napstering
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What will that new, post-Napster music industry look like? In some ways, it will be comfortingly familiar. There will still be CDs and music stores for some time; not all consumers are going to leap onto the Internet to meet their musical needs. As BMG Entertainment CEO Strauss Zelnick puts it, "People like packaged goods...
...chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, I have long appreciated the power of networking and of peer-to-peer file-sharing systems such as Napster. And I understand both the Internet ethos that whatever technology makes possible is inevitable and the vague precept that content should be (or will inexorably be) free...
...bothers me. I'm not a lawyer, but it sure feels like Napster is in the middle of violations of copyrights on a large scale and that this is not a good thing. (I say this despite the fact that I have, through a venture capital firm in which I participate, an investment in Napster...
...Napster and Gnutella let users swap data from one PC--or "peer"--to another, without going through a central server. Here's how they work...
...NAPSTER...