Word: napsterized
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...Over the course of its yearlong court battle to squash music-swapper Napster, the RIAA was not known for its futurism. And with a host of other free-music sites out there - BearShare, Gnutella, Aimster, yada, yada, yada, - snapping up downloaders as we speak, Rosen's optimism for a more moral world of online music (or merely a more lucrative one for the record companies, whichever you prefer) may be a bit premature. But she's right about one thing - the Senate wasn't doing much more than holding a star-studded wake...
...Parading before the committee to take the side of Napster and its ilk were former Eagle Don Henley and former Public Enemy Chuck D, who spoke to Napster fans before the hearing at a rally Monday evening. And in Washington to kowtow to the music establishment was Ted Nugent, a congressional-hearings favorite (though more for his bow-hunting prowess than "Cat Scratch Fever") and EMI executive Ken Berry...
...Vivendi Universal, for unfairly locking her into a long-term deal, won't be there. Olivia DeHavilland, the mid-century movie goddess who cracked the studio system with a similar suit in 1945, has since passed on. But Henley, in particular, wants to use the rise and fall of Napster as a jumping-off point for a larger debate about artists' rights and the traditional label system...
...Napster has facilitated breaking the law, but every age needs its Robin Hood. Before we give a few pop stars a multi-million dollar pat on the back and put our tails between our legs, ashamed of our overflowing hard-drives, perhaps we should consider getting pissed off. Napster has been regulated and commercialized, stripped of its lawless integrity. Apparently a grass-roots industry was just too good to be true...
...this may not be the best moment for cyberspace. Napster is stumbling. NASDAQ is a bust. Whole sectors of the virtual economy are wrapping up their stories at Chapter 11. But who cares if investors lose faith in the digital world? The artists are sticking with it--at least the ones who lately have been making some galleries look like Circuit City, full of dot-matrix screens and wall-mounted monitors. Remember when videotape was the hot new medium? Compared with CD-ROM art and screen-saver art, with website artworks or virtual-reality goggles, videotape is starting to look...