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Napster redux: Another online media-swapper gets sued by the entertainment industry, even as it is taking meetings with Hollywood giants.
By Kaitlin Quistgaard
July 21, 2000
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Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war.
By Janelle Brown
July 17, 2000
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Fending off a life-threatening court injunction, file-swapping phenom Napster insists it has done nothing wrong.
By Eric Boehlert
July 7, 2000
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Baby boomers are purchasing more CDs than ever -- but not jazz or classical. Can these genres survive in an increasingly bottom-line business?
By Eric Boehlert
July 6, 2000
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A peek inside the contentious company's shockingly mellow boardroom playlist, and other hits from the RIAA's latest court filing.
By Eric Boehlert
June 19, 2000
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The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
By Courtney Love
June 14, 2000
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By moving for an injunction against the file-swapping service, the recording industry shows just how little it gets the Net.
By Janelle Brown
June 14, 2000
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A protest at Stanford against the ultra-restrictive copyright law generates little heat and sparse attendance.
By Damien Cave
May 19, 2000
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The music-swapping software company uses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect fans from being unduly blocked from its service.
By Janelle Brown
May 10, 2000
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Napster lost its first round in court. But with both sides of the lawsuit depending on the murky Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the war is far from over.
By Eric Boehlert
May 9, 2000
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Napster CEO Eileen Richardson is walking on sunshine. But with lawsuits piling up, is she really dancing on a grave?
By Damien Cave
May 8, 2000
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RIAA chief Hilary Rosen defends the music industry's recent litigation against Napster and MP3.com.
By Janelle Brown
May 1, 2000
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A federal judge gives the record industry a big win in the battle against the online music pioneer.
By Eric Boehlert
April 28, 2000
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The battle over the much-maligned software heats up as artists begin to take sides.
By Eric Boehlert
April 24, 2000
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A once outspoken supporter of the controversial music-swapping
software switches his allegiance, as musicians strike back at Napster.
By Eric Boehlert
April 18, 2000
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Fans have already embraced new music-distribution technologies. Musicians can fight them or join them.
By Scott Rosenberg
March 30, 2000
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Does Napster rob artists? Plus: The secret lives of spokescharacters; switching race on the census.
March 28, 2000
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To many musicians, the MP3 trading software isn't a revolution -- it's a rip-off.
By Eric Boehlert
March 24, 2000
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Bruce Haring sets out to tell the amazing story of how the MP3 movement turned the recording industry on its head, but misses the beat.
By Janelle Brown
March 23, 2000
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A lawsuit asks if the litigious Recording Industry Association of America is sabotaging MP3.com's business.
By Janelle Brown
February 9, 2000
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Why the French can have their cake and eat it too; Plus: Napster is good for consumers but bad for recording artists.
Letters to the editor
February 8, 2000
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A little MP3 file-sharing program outlines the shape of things to come in the music industry -- and it's not what the big labels think.
By Scott Rosenberg
February 4, 2000
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The tiny Napster is shaking the music industry to its foundation.
By Janelle Brown
February 3, 2000
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Indie musicians find online music distributors every bit as greedy as the recording industry they aim to replace.
By Emily Vander Veer
December 2, 1999
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As the recording industry "educates" universities about digital music piracy, students feel the heat.
By Janelle Brown
November 17, 1999
A Napster lawsuit laid to rest
Napster death match, Round 3
Napster Sound Bite: Feelin' groovy
Courtney Love does the math
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