Napster

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Is the RIAA running scared?
A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry.
Personalize me, baby
Who needs MTV or Rolling Stone? The Net is finally delivering on an old promise: Introducing us to new music that we really, really like.
Escaping the Napster trap
DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz?
Don't march for Napster
Corporate co-optation of civil rights rhetoric is an abomination. It should be shunned.
Napster-proof CDs
By Charles C. Mann
Who is spying on your downloads?
The recording industry would love to keep tabs on every Napster trader or Gnutella user, but even the sneakiest software won't stop music piracy.
The next Napster?
A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
Escaping the Napster trap
Hackers and movie traders love the digital film compression software DivX -- but will Hollywood? Second of two parts.
Escaping the Napster trap
DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz? First of two parts.
Going, going ... gone?
Laura Miller speaks with Salon Tech writer Janelle Brown about the recent developments in the case against Napster.
Napster gets court's marching orders
Service must start blocking music files pronto, judge rules, but record companies must provide lists of copyrighted songs.
Courtney Love does the math
World music pioneer David Lindley writes to say online file swapping is a way of getting back at rich people.
Napster: Let's make a deal!
Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox?
Life after Napster
Ahri Birnbaum talks with Janelle Brown about Monday's ruling against the file-trading service and the future of music distribution on the Web.
Who's leeching who?
The courts can shut Napster down, but unless the music industry gives as well as takes, it will never recapture the customers it's alienating.
Napster: Hanging by a thread
A federal appeals court rules against the file-trading service on nearly every point of law, but holds off enforcing the injunction against it -- for now.
Victory or defeat?
Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in.
The Napster parasites
Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download.
Ian MacKaye
After 20 years, the Fugazi frontman and co-owner of Dischord Records is still a punk and a prince.
Come together, right now, over P2P
Popular Power will pay to borrow your computer and make the world a better place.
Whoring for downloads
Desperate for attention, aspiring musicians will stop at nothing to get fans to listen to their online tunes.
The art of innovation
What Silicon Valley is trying to do now, Cézanne and Picasso achieved decades ago.
Is Napster hurting record sales?
No, say the numbers. Business is looking good, even if the Backstreet Boys don't reclaim their rightful world supremacy.
The jukebox manifesto
Record companies should stop worrying about security and start giving people what they really want: Music, anywhere, anytime.
Maverick or monopolist?
Bertelsmann's deal with Napster proves once again that the media conglomerate is obsessed with being more than just a content company.
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