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...TIME: Meet the Napster ? TIME's October 2, 2000, cover feature on Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster...
Just last Tuesday, the Cambridge-based company signed a three-year deal with pressplay, a legal version of Napster backed by the world’s three largest record companies––Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Recorded Music...
...here: SonicBlue's ReplayTV 4000 ($699) works like a Tivo but also connects to the Internet so you can swap recorded shows online--if you have a fast connection, that is; these are big files. Trading TV shows over the Net for free? If this reminds you of the Napster flap, you're not alone: the Big Three networks are suing...
...pioneering a new field she calls geo-encryption. Working with industry, Denning has developed a way to keep information undecipherable until it reaches its location, as determined by GPS satellites. Movie studios, for example, have been afraid to release films digitally for the same reasons record companies hate Napster: once loose on the Internet, there's little to stop someone from posting the latest blockbuster DVD on the Web for all to see and download. With Denning's system, however, only subscribers in specified locations--such as movie theaters--would be able to unscramble the data. The technology works...
Oftentimes you don’t even know you’re afflicted—that is, until one unremarkable day when the blue-and-white Ghost of Napster Past grins at you from his spot next to the innocuous Printer icon. By then, of course, it is too late...