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...Napster, for whom the lawyers toll. They toll for thee. The Recording Industry Association of America, otherwise known as the RIAA, otherwise known as the music industry's Powers That Be, is rolling out the evidence that free-music enabler Napster is bringing down the American Way, one $15 CD at a time. According to a study conducted by retail-store tracker SoundScan as a supporting brief to the RIAA's copyright-infringement suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster...
...pleased with the court's decision today," said Hilary Rosen, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the record companies. RIAA also sued Diamond over the first portable MP3 players in 1998, and is currently trying to stop another MP3 network run by Napster...
...allows users to search for and download MP3 files from other users, while at the same time making their own collection universally available. As a result, Napster has been wading through uncharted legal waters since its founding, and has already been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It is strange that the recording industry has been so averse to the sharing of MP3 files; college students are some of the industry's best customers and it has been argued that listening to MP3 files increases, rather than decreases, students' music purchases...
...Internet is great not only for distributing homemade digital entertainment. It's also increasingly being used for swapping and swiping products, especially music, made by major artists and studios. By now, the long-running legal battle between the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA)--representing the traditional recording industry--and the millions of college kids downloading free jams over the Net has begun to resemble those chewing-gum commercials where fusty geezers shake their canes at crazy kids and their "flavor crystals." The latest twist in this saga of college kids ignoring their elders, not to mention copyright...
Napster destroys option value, letting you listen for free to whatever you want right now. That's one reason the RIAA filed suit last December, charging that Napster "is operating a haven for music piracy on an unprecedented scale." Yet no pirated files ever sit on the Napster server--Fanning considered legal liability when he wrote the software--so those charges may not stick. Meanwhile, college campuses, claiming that Napster is sucking up too much bandwidth, have begun blocking access to the site. Gnutella, which doesn't require a centralized server, will be harder to shut down. But even...