Word: napsterizing
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...that the free-music revolution is over just yet. Gnutella, iMesh, Aimster and FreeNet are all Napster-style music-trading facilitators, and unaffected by the ruling. Some believe that subtle differences in method will help them beat litigation, although the term "vicarious copyright infringement" tends to sum up the reason for, say, Gnutella's existence just as well as Napster's. But until those services get fat enough on Napster's users to catch the eye of the Big Five music labels (Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal) and their lawyers, there is such a thing as a free lunch...
...Napsters of the world weren't designed to make the Shawn Fannings of the world rich - more to Stick It To The Man, and change the music business from without. And it's already working. Back in October, while the appeals process was still underway, Napster and Big Fiver Bertelsmann cut a deal to turn the renegade into a profit-making (and officially sanctioned) music-selling arm of said Man, with funding by Bertelsmann and mechanics by Napster...
...Good-bye Napster, hello Son of Napster...
...Until then, the free-tune grab is still on, as long as you stay one step ahead of the lawyers. After Mp3.com, Napster, after Napster, Gnutella, after Gnutella, iMesh, after iMesh, tijuanatunes.com...
...normally an absolute moral rock. Just ask anybody here at TIME.com. Just three months ago, in the time I now sadly recognize as Before the Fall, I was an innocent, and pure, and un-Napstered. This was mainly because it was difficult for me to get Napster; we have a vicious and unyielding corporate firewall here at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and I was using a World War II surplus dial-up modem at home...