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...Napster's college-student users, this pact means several things. First of all, we can expect that sometime in the next few months, all Bertelsmann content (like Santana and Christina Aguilera) will be pulled from the free Napster service and moved to a premium service. Expect to pay between $10 to $25 a month to subscribe. The rest of the songs on Napster will remain free, which leads us to two possible alternatives. Under the first alternative, the record companies will individually put up their own competing subscription sites, which will be so disastrous for everyone that the record companies...
Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...
...pull out of the Napster case as soon as the company develops a for-pay version of the service that accommodates the rights of copyright holders. Bertelsmann will also chip in with a loan in the tens of millions - most of which will be sunk into developing song- and user-tracking technology, which is how royalties will be toted up - in exchange for options on as much as 58 percent of Napster...
...elections for five of the at-large positions have just concluded, with one member selected from each of five regions (defined as Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean and North America). Any Internet user with an e-mail address and a physical address was eligible to register to vote...
...massive restructuring. Last week the company was reportedly considering selling its debt-ridden financing operation, which lends money to prospective customers, to GE Capital. It has also discussed selling Xerox PARC, its research center in Silicon Valley, a source of great innovation--from the computer mouse to the graphical user interface and laser printer--but, thanks to the missteps of top brass, not a source of much income...