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...Williams makes the Most Spirited Top 10 Another plus for Harvard: Boston is deemed one of the Top 10 music scenes Extra credit California state schools UCLA, Berkeley and San Diego all make the Top 10 Best euphemism: Top 10 Fun-Loving Schools (e.g., Holy Cross and Bucknell) Free Napster access at 12 schools, including U.N.C. and Vanderbilt...
...record industry's public enemy No. 1 has become its new best friend. Shawn Fanning, the teenage techie turned Internet icon who at 18 began designing Napster in his Northeastern college dorm room--firing the opening salvo in what would become a revolution in the music industry--has launched a company to, of all things, protect intellectual property. Snocap aims to solve the very problem that file-sharing service Napster helped create, by identifying copyrighted music and preventing it from being swapped unless the user pays. And get this: 27% of Snocap's employees are Napster veterans; chief operating officer...
Fanning incorporated Snocap two weeks after the Supreme Court forced Napster into bankruptcy in September 2002 for facilitating copyright infringement. (Roxio bought the Napster name, and Fanning is no longer affiliated with it.) The June Supreme Court decision holding companies liable for illegal file sharing by their users suddenly gave the recording industry more negotiating leverage with illegal file-sharing services. And with more listeners eager to find legal ways to download music, Snocap offers a viable alternative...
Looking back over the past few years, Fanning has no regrets. "Everything that was done with Napster was a learning experience," he says. "What was learned helped create some of the inspiration for what Snocap would become." The record companies are hoping Fanning's lesson will...
Souter’s opinion found evidence of intent to aid copyright infringement from both companies, following the collapse of popular file-sharing service Napster. Their revenue was dependent on their popularity among copyright infringers, he argued, and neither of them tried to develop a means by which copyrighted material could be filtered...