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The software giant usually demolishes any opponent that dares to step in its path. But it can't beat streaming-media king RealNetworks.
By Damien Cave
February 16, 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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Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind?
By Andrew Leonard
February 15, 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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California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.
By Anthony York
February 14, 2001
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Readers respond to our story about the federal appeals court ruling against the file-trading service.
February 14, 2001
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No more unionization battles at the beleaguered dot-com; there may be nothing left to organize.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 14, 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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Robert Reich's "The Future of Success" says we're too insecure to stop working.
By Noam Scheiber
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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Janelle Brown talks about Silicon Valley's drag-racing geeks and Damien Cave discusses online pornographers with image problems.
By Janelle Brown and Damien Cave
February 9, 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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Author Eric Schlosser says you don't want to know what the burger giants are serving.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 8, 2001
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By Jeff Edwards
February 7, 2001
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In a new documentary, the archetypal cyberpunk author displays his new obsession: Media, not technology.
By Andrew Leonard
February 7, 2001
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With the Marlboro Man leading the way, our wilderness is being tamed, once and for all.
By Tom Washington
February 6, 2001
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Work should be play, says a new book that sets forth the emerging ethical code of free-software programmers.
By Andrew Leonard
February 5, 2001
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Amy Standen explains why a satirical site has the Humane Society up in arms, and Katharine Mieszkowski reports on Homestore.com's film venture.
February 5, 2001
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How hype and urban legend made Red Bull into a commercial cocktail juggernaut.
By Jeff Edwards
February 2, 2001
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Readers respond to two recent stories on California's energy crisis.
February 2, 2001
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Vault.com invited the disgruntled employees of the world to vent at its Web site. But then its own workers joined in.
By Janelle Brown
February 1, 2001
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How a water-grabbing scheme concocted by T. Boone Pickens is turning conservative Texans into a bunch of regulation-loving liberals.
By Jacques Leslie
February 1, 2001
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Does it take marching bands and a live tiger to get a distribution deal at Sundance?
By Alan Deutschman
January 31, 2001
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The electricity industry and the GOP blame NIMBY neighbors for the crisis. Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy.
By Damien Cave
January 30, 2001
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Katharine Mieszkowski reports on the continuing West Coast energy crisis, while Janelle Brown goes underground as she explores the attraction of a new urban sport called "infiltration."
By Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski
January 29, 2001