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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How the record industry used a tiny legislative amendment to try to steal recording copyrights from artists -- forever.
By Eric Boehlert
August 28, 2000
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As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code.
By Damien Cave
August 7, 2000
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How Napster turns otherwise upstanding citizens into recidivist outlaws -- and what the music industry can do to save itself.
By Scott Rosenberg
August 7, 2000
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Is the file-sharing craze bruising retailers?
By Eric Boehlert
August 7, 2000
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Has the press given Napster a free ride?
By Eric Boehlert
August 1, 2000
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Napster's shutdown will only cause a thousand alternatives to bloom.
By Scott Rosenberg
July 27, 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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Maverick or monopolist?
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License to be good
Rio's Pyrrhic victory
Technical foul
Four little words
A hacker crackdown?
The great MP3 love fest
Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate
Court to Napster: You're going down
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