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Then, in the spring of 2000, after Napster rocked the music industry with its MusicShare software, Scour released its own peer-to-peer program, the Scour Exchange. With the tagline, "Mine! Mine! It's all mine! Music. Movies. Pictures.," Scour Exchange gained an estimated user base of 5 million...
...meals in the Houses and in Annenberg when accompanied by a student. Can't make it to a professor's office hours? Had a conflict with your House's student-faculty dinner? The faculty lunch program, offered every day from 11:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., offers maximum user-friendliness. But when was the last time you saw a professor in your dining hall during lunch...
...step in the evolution of computer parasites. These programs are known as worms, programs that insidiously spread from one computer to another with very little human intervention. The ILOVEYOU virus stole passwords and credit card numbers; the MTX virus, on the other hand, destroys files and prevents a user from accessing certain websites. Even more dangerous than such worms, possibly, are Trojans. These virus-type programs allow someone else access to your computer. Once they're loaded on, the hacker can do almost anything with your system, from using it to hack other systems to opening new files from anywhere...
...PSTN--used for phone calls today--makes a direct connection between a user and a caller...
...sticking point now is the new business model, which nobody at either Napster or Bertelsmann is certain of. The main reason is technology. So far, it just isn't clear how to track every digital file out there and put a user name and a price on it. And there are huge questions about what a reasonable price would be. Barry has suggested a monthly fee of $4.95. But websites all over cyberspace burned furiously last week as Napster fans threatened to ditch the service if it charged as much as a nickel for music-file access...