Word: napsterized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Scour also gained in popularity at schools, such as Yale, that had restricted traffic to and from Napster's servers on their network...
Because of the high price tag, both companies say they will take great precautions to avoid the type of lawsuit that have plagued Scour and Napster...
...Napster has, in my view, about a 40 percent chance of prevailing on this issue in the appeal currently pending before the 9th Circuit," writes Harvard Professor of Law William W. Fisher in an e-mail message. "Scour believed that it could point to an even more extensive list of legitimate uses of its technology...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
Still, there is speculation that Napster may ultimately allow video to be traded on its servers. Fanning, however, has said his company is currently focusing all of its development efforts on creating a fee structure, in alliance with record label Bertelsmann...