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...Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late ’90s, when Napster entered the scene, it was so efficient at music swapping that academic uses of limited university bandwidth were hindered, so many schools (Harvard included) set out policies which gave preference to web and e-mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping end-to-end, however, has certain technophiles...
...much of Microsoft's own protected content doesn't play on the system, either. For nearly a year, Microsoft's Windows Media division has promoted subscription content that you can play on your PC or on a portable player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed up is that none of those tracks play on the Xbox. Microsoft should have been careful to make sure that this content would...
...their work. All kinds of technologies which could have been used for copyright infringement—mp3 players, certainly, but perhaps also things like the World Wide Web—were popularized largely free from those sorts of legal worries. Certain early peer-to-peer file sharing services like Napster still found themselves in deep water because they used central servers which, the courts decided, played a more profound role in copyright infringement than merely as an enabling technology. Still, so long as a product had certain features which meant that the company running the service never directly contributed...
Teens aren't inclined to pay for stuff they can get free--especially off the Internet. "We're too cheap," says a 17-year-old Redwood City, Calif., high school student. Thanks to such post-Napster sites as BitTorrent and Soulseek that offer free peer-to-peer file sharing, the teenager and her friends don't have to buy music, movies, games and TV shows online. Getting away with illegal downloading to cell phones is so easy that mobile piracy is denting the $4 billion mobile-content business. Ringtone shoplifting is one of the costliest abuses, accounting for an estimated...
...iPod—not a Sony “Network Walkman,” nor a “Dell DJ Ditty,” nor even a “MobiBlu DAH.” There are other music stores, of course—Sony has their own, Napster has been rebranded from a dotcom-era law-defiant hotbed of copyright criminality into a legal market for music, and even Walmart has entered the fray. And you can play the songs from these stores on any mp3 player you’d like from Sony, Dell, or Creative?...