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...Internet trading] because of the way Napster’s helped us out so much,” said Repete. Repete feels that the impulse to trade songs freely online is a good one. He stated, “If bands would just give a song or two to Napster...then they could get their music out all over the place...
Gnutella follows in Napster’s footsteps as a file-sharing service through which one computer can access files on another—a system often used with copyrighted material. While Napster involves the transfer of music files, Gnutella allows the transfer of videos...
Last fall, the College rejected the music group Metallica’s request that Harvard block student access to Napster. “Selective blocking of Internet sites would be inconsistent with Harvard’s policy of open access to the net and individual responsibility for computer use,” Lewis said in an advertisement printed in The Crimson on Sept...
After that came a list of "begats." Napster begat Gnutella, which begat LimeWire and so on, until the world had (at last count) 176 brands of file-sharing software. But none quite caught the imagination as did their progenitor. They were too slow, or too hard to understand, or couldn't reach more than 40,000 users at the same time without using the same kind of centralized server that got Napster into so much fire and brimstone. One that came very close was BearShare, built in a couple of months by Florida programmer Vincent Falco. "It offers a little...
...first time since Napster, a program had enough users that it could enable them to find just about any piece of popular music they sought, and enough power to locate and download it from their peers in a matter of heartbeats. Yet Morpheus is more than just the second coming of Napster--it is as indestructible as the Internet itself. "It can't be turned off, ever," says MusicCity CEO Michael Weiss. "Someone could walk into our data center in downtown L.A., shut down every server we have, and the network would continue...