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A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry.
By Janelle Brown
April 26, 2001
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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.
By Janelle Brown
April 6, 2001
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DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz?
By Damien Cave
April 6, 2001
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Corporate co-optation of civil rights rhetoric is an abomination. It should be shunned.
By Andrew Leonard
April 2, 2001
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By Charles C. Mann
March 29, 2001
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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.
By Janelle Brown
March 27, 2001
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A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
By Janelle Brown
March 20, 2001
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Hackers and movie traders love the digital film compression software DivX -- but will Hollywood? Second of two parts.
By Damien Cave
March 19, 2001
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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.
By Damien Cave
March 15, 2001
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Laura Miller speaks with Salon Tech writer Janelle Brown about the recent developments in the case against Napster.
March 8, 2001
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Service must start blocking music files pronto, judge rules, but record companies must provide lists of copyrighted songs.
By Damien Cave
March 6, 2001
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World music pioneer David Lindley writes to say online file swapping is a way of getting back at rich people.
March 5, 2001
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Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox?
By Janelle Brown
February 21, 2001
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Ahri Birnbaum talks with Janelle Brown about Monday's ruling against the file-trading service and the future of music distribution on the Web.
February 16, 2001
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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.
By Scott Rosenberg
February 15, 2001
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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.
By Salon Technology & Business staff
February 12, 2001
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Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in.
By Salon Technology & Business staff
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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After 20 years, the Fugazi frontman and co-owner of Dischord Records is still a punk and a prince.
By Peter Brandt
January 8, 2001
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Popular Power will pay to borrow your computer and make the world a better place.
By Damien Cave
December 14, 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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What Silicon Valley is trying to do now, Cézanne and Picasso achieved decades ago.
By Colin Stewart
November 28, 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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Record companies should stop worrying about security and start giving people what they really want: Music, anywhere, anytime.
By Janelle Brown
November 13, 2000
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Bertelsmann's deal with Napster proves once again that the media conglomerate is obsessed with being more than just a content company.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 2, 2000
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