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...Prime Number 592 million songs were downloaded from Napster in the last week of March?despite the site's attempt to block copyrighted material...
...focus of the digital-music debate is rapidly shifting. Once dominant song-swapping service Napster is a shell of its former self, with 1.6 million copyrighted tunes now fully blocked by court order. And the music industry has not wasted time before stepping into the void. Its first Ping-Pong ball was served in the early hours of Monday morning, when EMI, Bertelsmann and Warner Music--three of the labels long lampooned as dinosaurs that didn't get the Net--were inking a deal with Real Networks and AOL after a year of top-secret negotiations...
...website that wants to license recordings for you to download. Of course, AOL and Real.com are first in line. Real owns 40% of MusicNet; the three labels own 20% each. (AOL, Warner Music and TIME are divisions of AOL Time Warner.) But the deal is so unavoidably big, even Napster is thinking about signing...
...really felt bad about using Napster-for certain artists, I wouldn't use them," he said...
...Even Napster has acquiesced to the fee-based business model, cultivating a deal earlier this year with BMG to create a fee-based service...