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...system is a response to burgeoning demands on the FAS network primarily attributed to Napster users outside of Harvard, who download songs from Harvard napster users...
Having failed to change the world for free - legally, anyway - Napster is upping its offer...
...Under the plan, the Big Five would split $150 million annually, divvied up according to what percentage of their works are downloaded by Napster users. An additional $50 million a year would be split among independent music companies and artists...
...putting a concrete offer on the table," Hank Barry, Napster's chief executive, said, adding that talks along these lines with the record companies have been proceeding apace since last summer. Indeed, in November, Napster cut a deal with Bertelsmann to finance just such a transformation to a pay-for-play model...
This counter-culture's penchant for revolutionary language is, in my eyes, their most endearing aspect. Napster and other elements of the imminent "digital music revolution" are acting only in accordance with the basic truth of Internet communications, namely that "information cannot be stifled and must always be set free." The goal of the revolution is to "subvert the music industry's control over the distribution of music," and to place the reins of music back in the hands of The People...