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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: MP3
How the music industry blew it
John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.
Revenge of the file-sharing masses!
By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.
The music revolution will not be digitized
The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.
Napster-proof CDs
By Charles C. Mann
The next Napster?
A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
Escaping the Napster trap
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.
Napster gets court's marching orders
Service must start blocking music files pronto, judge rules, but record companies must provide lists of copyrighted songs.
Napster: Let's make a deal!
Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox?
Who's leeching who?
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.
Napster: Hanging by a thread
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. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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