Napster

  • Eyes on your copyrighted prize

    Don't even think about trying to find a copy of an award-winning civil rights documentary online. The copyright cops will be waiting.
    By Andrew Leonard January 5, 2005

  • Send lawyers, guns and money

    CD sales have rebounded ever since the music biz started suing file-sharers. The industry is convinced there's a connection.
    By Eric Boehlert November 6, 2003

  • Can anyone stop the music cops?

    As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 17, 2003

  • Mexico's music business meltdown

    Pirates armed with CD burners and cheap discs are bringing the industry to its knees. The U.S. could be next.
    By Jack Brown June 9, 2003

  • I have seen the future of music and its name is iTunes

    Apple's new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be -- cheap, easy and, best of all, legal.
    By Farhad Manjoo April 29, 2003

  • A file-trading ship of fools

    Don't scapegoat greedy record execs for Napster's failure, says Joseph Menn in "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster." The inept bunglers who ran the company have only themselves to blame.
    By Farhad Manjoo April 21, 2003

  • The Napster backlash

    When Savenapster.com founder Chad Paulson decided that the file-trading pioneer cared more about money than artists, he stunned the company by changing sides. An excerpt from "All the Rave."
    By Joseph Menn April 21, 2003

  • Replay it again, Sam

    Personal video recorders already have Hollywood running scared. Now Microsoft is pushing a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using ... Napster.
    By Farhad Manjoo December 9, 2002

  • File sharing: Guilty as charged?

    New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.
    By Damien Cave August 23, 2002

  • Sour notes

    The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 30, 2002

  • File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty

    An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
    By Damien Cave June 13, 2002

  • Not the real Slim Shady

    Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?
    By Dan Levine June 10, 2002

  • Napster's wake

    The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.
    By Janelle Brown May 17, 2002

  • Musician to Napster judge: Let my music go

    A 1960s-era recording artist says he can't get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free.
    By Damien Cave April 23, 2002

  • Anti-Trustworthy computing

    Microsoft's new security drive aims to appease Hollywood, comfort consumers and reinvigorate the PC. But will the price for such safety be too high?
    By Paul Boutin April 9, 2002

  • Don't steal music, pretty please

    Record companies will make big, big money online. They just need to learn to let go.
    By Paul Boutin December 18, 2001

  • How the music industry blew it

    John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.
    By Richard Barbrook November 30, 2001

  • Internet liberation theology

    In "The Future of Ideas" Lawrence Lessig explains why ham-handed efforts to increase copyright protection are a threat to freedom and prosperity.
    By Marc Rotenberg November 7, 2001

  • Peer-to-peer terrorism

    Bad news from the Napster wars: The harder you fight against decentralized networks, the more enemies you create.
    By James Grimmelmann September 26, 2001

  • The parasite economy

    There's a new software business model in town -- symbiotic plug-ins that pay for the privilege of piggybacking on the hot download of the moment.
    By Damien Cave August 2, 2001

  • R.I.P. World Birthday Web

    As the Net gets older, is it losing its soul, or just growing up?
    By Andrew Leonard August 1, 2001

  • Revenge of the file-sharing masses!

    By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.
    By Scott Rosenberg July 20, 2001

  • Everyone's Brent Musburger

    Down with the sports monopolies! In the FanCast.com future, we all get to do the play-by-play.
    By King Kaufman June 27, 2001

  • End of an affair?

    Hackers love their TiVos, and the company is fond of its hackers. But as in any relationship, sometimes one party goes a bit too far.
    By Damien Cave June 20, 2001

  • The music revolution will not be digitized

    The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.
    By Janelle Brown June 1, 2001
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