Word: napsterized
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Call it video Napster. The elusive goal of film and television producers has long been a marriage between the Internet and video programming, a single pipeline that would allow consumers to order up entertainment and information from a buffet of sources. So when German media giant Bertelsmann last week took control of RTL, Europe's biggest TV company, interactive programming suddenly looked a lot closer. "We are significantly pushing ahead on the interactive TV front," says Thomas Hesse, ceo of the newly formed RTL NEWMEDIA group. The firm hopes to roll out its interactive service in Germany by summer...
...company Vivendi-Bertelsmann has been under pressure to bulk up. Not only has the group acquired control of RTL, which has TV and radio properties in 11 countries, but it is also bidding for the record company EMI and forging a global alliance between Bertelsmann music subsidiary BMG and Napster, the controversial Internet site where people can exchange music for free...
...That strategy helps explain why Bertelsmann is teaming with Napster, angering other established record companies that have taken the Internet service to court for copyright infringement. While details haven't been finalized, Bertelsmann is close to announcing a technical solution that will allow Napster to charge a monthly subscription fee in exchange for legal access to record company music. Similar solutions will have to be worked out for content transferred to set-top boxes and mobile phones, as well. "What we have to realize is that it is easier to steal intellectual property than it is to get legal access...
...Davis said that Napster has since then found ways to get around such restrictions, and he emphasized that other websites such as Scour.com, Gnutella and CuteMX, have gained a place in the hearts of Harvard students--and have contributed to clogging up the network in the process...
...October, HASCS restricted Napster access by limiting outbound network traffic for the music-sharing service...