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...given day, roughly one to two percent of all U.S. Internet traffic uses Napster, according to Neilsen/Net ratings, an Internet audience measurement service. Other experts say that estimate is probably low. Napster itself claims more than 20 million users...
...company has often argued that the major record labels have failed to keep pace with the American consumer. And instead of working on its technology sprinting skills to catch up, the Recording Industry Association of America has cried copyright foul. The RIAA sued Napster for "contributory copyright infringement," and won a preliminary injunction against the company late last month in Federal District Court. But a higher court of appeals dismissed the injunction several days later, and oral arguments have been scheduled for September. Intellectual property experts and philosophers have tossed in their opinions, some supporting copyright law in its current...
HARWICH, Mass.--This here is Napster country. Harwich, on the elbow of Cape Cod, is home to cranberry bogs, pristine New England shore and Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster Music Community. Last winter, at the beginning of what has become a Napster media blitz, I squealed with pride when I first saw my high school classmate pictured in U.S. News and World Report. I knew Napster--and the sweet kid I suffered through high school calculus with--had made it to the big time early last spring when he was featured in Rolling Stone. They don't just put anybody...
...reasoning goes about like this: think of some of this year's biggest business stories--AOL's merging with Time Warner, Vivendi's acquiring Seagram, Napster's hijacking the music industry. They are all, in some sense, about devising more and creative ways to suck up bandwidth. Words, music, video, interactive TV--they're all data that have to go through the electronic plumbing of the network...
DAVID BOIES Napster lawyer wins a temporary stay to keep Web music site up. (So do your downloading quickly...