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...Napster has been meeting with the big labels steadily, but except for the deal with Bertelsmann, it has not yet got to yes. Richard Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner, a major music distributor (and parent company of TIME), told reporters earlier this month that he had yet to see an acceptable business model from Napster...
...embattled Barry's biggest headache is still Napster's legal woes. The appeals court sent the case back to Federal District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel to issue a new order telling Napster exactly what it needs to do to clean up its act--and by when. If Patel's order forces Napster to start policing its site immediately, Barry says, it is possible that "we'll have no choice but to shut the system down...
This may explain the timing of last week's announcement of new architecture, which probably won't be ready for months. There is a long tradition in the software industry of releasing "vaporware"--illusory software announced just to throw off the competition. Napster's architecture may be a variation on the theme. Call it litigationware, real software designed to convince a court you're sincere about going legit. We should know any day now whether it worked...
Music sharing is alive and well on the Internet, no matter what happens in the courtrooms of San Francisco. The pioneering file-sharing software programs, Napster and Gnutella, have given birth to an impressive array of hybrids and clones. There's Napigator, with its headphone-wearing reptile logo; BearShare, featuring a teddy with headphones; Newtella, starring a newt with...you guessed it. The whole scene is starting to look like a Muppet Show special sponsored by Koss...
...anything, there's too much of a menagerie out there: more than 50 cute 'n' friendly file-sharing services. And Napster's (original) headphone-clad cat looms so large that if you shut the service down, you are effectively sending users from a Virgin Megastore the size of Manhattan into dozens of poky vinyl-enthusiast stores that have no way of communicating with one another. Even though Gnutella clones (like Gnotella and Gnucleus) share the same networks, the technology still segregates users into temporary 10,000-person groups. And those users can forget about sharing with the geeks over...