Word: napsterized
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...popular music-sharing Internet service Napster received a heavy blow to its struggle to stay alive yesterday, as a court ruling indicated the service is likely to be shut down pending a final ruling on the matter...
...trial injunction requiring Napster to shut down--issued last July by the District Court of Northern California and then stayed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August--was effectively sent back to the district court yesterday for modification...
...Although Napster remains accessible for the moment, when the district court rewords its decision the service will be unavailable--only reopening if Napster should emerge victorious from its final trial...
...believe you use Napster," Frank Pellegrini, my neighbor here at TIME.com, told me today. "Don't you think that you're stealing?" I told him that I didn't use to think so, but that lately I'd been having my doubts. "It's like being a waitress," our Frank said. "These artists depend on your royalties to live." Suddenly I felt like we were in the opening scene of "Reservoir Dogs" - and I was Mr. Pink...
...this stealing? The answer is, yes, I know, that TK million people downloaded songs from Napster last weekend, which is theory represents TK million in lost revenue for record companies. (See Frank Pellegrini's accompanying story for the actual figures. TK, by the way, is journalistic shorthand for "To Come.") On the other hand, c'mon: A lot of those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items...