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New on Salon Audio: Free Music MP3s! A sneak preview of Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus' new solo album.
February 12, 2001
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Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download.
By Janelle Brown
February 9, 2001
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By Janelle Brown
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December 4, 2000
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Desperate for attention, aspiring musicians will stop at nothing to get fans to listen to their online tunes.
By Janelle Brown
November 30, 2000
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MP3.com's "Adult Content" ghetto is an orgy of canned beats and moaning nymphets. But it's entertaining, and the artists make a little cash.
By King Kaufman
November 30, 2000
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No, say the numbers. Business is looking good, even if the Backstreet Boys don't reclaim their rightful world supremacy.
By Eric Boehlert
November 27, 2000
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Music consumers will benefit if Bertelsmann can convince the major record labels to conspire.
By Eric Boehlert
November 2, 2000
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It's either a sellout or a savvy survival move: The beleaguered music trading service is getting into bed with Bertelsmann.
By Damien Cave and Janelle Brown
October 31, 2000
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A team of researchers claims to have successfully hacked a digital music watermarking system.
By Janelle Brown
October 22, 2000
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Did hackers successfully break watermarks designed to protect digital music?
By Janelle Brown
October 19, 2000
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Illicit pleasures are the best kind. If the court approves MP3 trading, what kind of rebel will I be?
By Meta Wagner
October 12, 2000
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Feeling guilty when you listen to that MP3? A new plug-in from the folks at Fairtunes might ease your conscience.
By Janelle Brown
October 5, 2000
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There's no decision yet, but the appeals court's questions suggest it may give the software company the benefit of the doubt.
By Janelle Brown
October 3, 2000
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Legal experts handicap the file-trading service's courtroom chances. Their verdict? Thumbs down.
By Damien Cave
October 2, 2000
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October 2, 2000
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As soon as an online music-trading service gets big enough to be useful, it's doomed.
By Janelle Brown
September 29, 2000
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And they're off! Two competing upgrades to a controversial video-compression format are racing to the finish.
By Damien Cave
September 28, 2000
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Last year, the Net won its first legal battle against the music industry. But in doing so, it may have lost the war.
By Eric Boehlert
September 19, 2000
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Beware, record labels -- treat your bands better, or you'll get Napstered.
By Janelle Brown
September 14, 2000
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MP3.com goes to court with a tricky defense, alleging that Universal doesn't own the music it markets.
By Eric Boehlert
September 6, 2000
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Try as it might to be an upstanding cybercitizen, AOL finds itself supporting a piracy program that piggybacks on AIM.
By Janelle Brown
August 11, 2000
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By Scott Rosenberg
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August 9, 2000
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By Eric Boehlert
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August 3, 2000
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The judge vents her wrath on the Napster "monster" and closes the music-swapping service -- for now.
By Damien Cave and Kaitlin Quistgaard
July 27, 2000
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Napster redux: Another online media-swapper gets sued by the entertainment industry, even as it is taking meetings with Hollywood giants.
By Kaitlin Quistgaard
July 21, 2000
On the pavement
The Napster parasites
Whoring for downloads
Is Napster hurting record sales?
Keep Napster fun -- shut it down!
The Gnutella paradox
Rio's Pyrrhic victory
Technical foul
Court to Napster: You're going down
Glenn Greenwald
War Room
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