As Napster and the recording industry slug it out in court over charges of piracy, voices from the sidelines have said, in effect, "Who cares?" Go ahead, shut down the popular music-sharing ...

Music industry arch-nemesis Napster Inc. is dying for lack ... re a global swap meet for pirates. The new systems--known as peer-to-peer file-sharing networks--can deliver massive amounts of ...

Three days after promising in a District Court hearing in San Francisco to implement a file ... system over the weekend, online file sharing company Napster has yet to begin blocking copyrighted ...

The number of people actively sharing files over the Internet using peer-to-peer systems has almost ... called ".nap". Napster has remained the most popular online music destination in Europe ...

NEW YORK — After nearly a year of getting the collective cold shoulder from the music industry, Napster ... of a legal file-sharing service, but he’s confident that the system will eventually ...

"Napster was just one symptom." Online file-sharing services turned out to be hydras. Shut one down, and two more grow up to take its place. The music industry started a war against what it called ...

Napster's claim to fame came near the turn of the century. The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share and download copyrighted music with others online ...

MARTÍNEZ: But on June 1, 1999, Napster was born - peer-to-peer file-sharing. My music collection can be yours with the click of a button. By the end of that summer, labels were freaking out.

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