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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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Never mind music or software piracy, even the realm of Christian merchandise is fraught with intellectual property violations.
By Damien Cave
October 25, 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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What does the failure of e-commerce experiments tell us about the potential for making money on the Net?
By Scott Rosenberg
October 20, 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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Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection system.
By Janelle Brown
October 12, 2000
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Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net.
By Damien Cave
October 9, 2000
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Salon's tech writers discuss the latest developments in the Napster and Microsoft court cases.
By Janelle Brown and Damien Cave
October 6, 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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October 4, 2000
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Programmers don't want to help the recording industry test its new security "solution." But the technology insiders behind the system say hackers could kill it once and for all by participating.
By Janelle Brown
October 3, 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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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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The music industry needs a triple bypass, he says, and the Web's performing the surgery. Straight talk from the veteran musician, whose new album will be released this week both online and in stores.
By Amy Reiter
September 25, 2000
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In the free-software world, people obey the rules because they believe in them. In the music industry, the rip-off is a way of life.
By Andrew Leonard
September 22, 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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Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy?
By Damien Cave
August 28, 2000
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Could the Napster case turn on a little-known copyright ruling involving swap meets?
By Eric Boehlert
August 23, 2000
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Dan Rodrigues defends his multimedia search engine, even as it faces a nasty lawsuit.
By Damien Cave
August 22, 2000
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August 9, 2000
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Keep Napster fun -- shut it down!
The Mojo solution
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The Gnutella paradox
A conversation with John Hiatt
License to be good
Rio's Pyrrhic victory
Information just wants to be Freenet
Why Scour is not the new Napster
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
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