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A court fight of another sort resulted from the activities of Napster, the high-profile music-sharing Web site, and it pitted the music industry against Internet file sharing. Napster's peer-to-peer ...
Computers and Information Systems
On-line music downloading continued to blossom, despite the music industry's efforts to stop unauthorized free distribution of copyrighted music and the industry's own slowly unfolding plan to sell ...
cybercrime
Sales of compact discs (CDs) are the major source of revenue for recording companies. Although piracy-that is, the illegal duplication of copyrighted materials-has always been a problem, especially ...
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The arrival of Napster in 1999 marked the emergence of decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of music over the Internet. At its peak in 2001, there were as many as 1.5 million people ...
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College students have been at the leading edge of the growing awareness of the centrality of intellectual property in a digital age. When American college student Shawn Fanning invented Napster in ...
Middelhoff, Thomas
Could signal success in publishing be translated into the music business as well? In 2001 Thomas Middelhoff, the dynamic chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann AG, the German global media giant, was betting ...
Computers and Information Systems
The saga of Microsoft Corp.'s legal troubles dominated technology news in 2000, as did the decline of the high-flying stock market that had powered the rise of dot-com companies that for the most ...
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How, then, should rock's contribution to music history be judged? One way to answer this is to trace rock's influences on other musics; another is to attempt a kind of cultural audit (What is the ...
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Despite the strengthening of intellectual-property laws, the growing economic and cultural importance of intellectual-property rights, and a widespread view that such rights are socially desirable, ...
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The legal issue that drew the most attention was the battle between the music-recording industry and various unauthorized Web sites that distributed music for free over the Internet. The recording ...
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Related topics from Ask NewsMetallica drew flak for its Napster stand, but the online stealing ...
KansasCity.com - Found Oct. 19, 2008
... the battle with Napster left some scars. That was never about money or the Internet, Ulrich said. It was always about control. But Napster ran ...
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Metallica drew flak for its Napster stand, but the online stealing ...
Kansas City Star - Found Oct. 19, 2008
The only time I talk about Napster is when I do interviews, says Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica. Its not a big part of my life.
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'Napster judge' thumps RealDVD, but will she ban it?
News.blog: Apple (CNET News.com) - Found Oct. 8, 2008
Judge Marilyn Hall Patel took Napster out, but in another case she ruled computer source code is protected under free speech.
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Best Buy gets antitrust approval to buy Napster
Forbes.com - Found Oct. 1, 2008
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy has been given antitrust approval to buy digital music service Napster, the Federal Trade Commission
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Best Buy gets FTC approval to buy Napster
TechSpot News - Found Oct. 1, 2008
... a $121 million purchase of Napster. Napster has been struggling for quite some time, and Best Buy believed they could not only bail Napster out...
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Napster's sale to Best Buy ok'd by FTC
Biz Journals - Found Oct. 2, 2008
... granted early termination to the waiting period for Napster's deal to sell itself to Best Buy Co. Inc., according to a filing Napster made with...
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Napster's sale to Best Buy ok'd by FTC
Conde Nast Portfolio - Found Oct. 3, 2008
... granted early termination to the waiting period for Napster's deal to sell itself to Best Buy Co. Inc., according to a filing Napster made with...
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GENERAL: FTC Approves Napster Sale to Best Buy
All About Jazz - Found Oct. 3, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy has been given antitrust approval to buy digital music service Napster, the Federal Trade Commission said on ...
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Napster's sale to Best Buy ok'd by FTC
Los Angeles Business - Found Oct. 2, 2008
... granted early termination to the waiting period for Napster's deal to sell itself to Best Buy Co. Inc., according to a filing Napster made with...
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Digital Music: Best Buy gets antitrust approval to buy Napster ...
IOL Technology - Found Oct. 1, 2008
Reuters - Retailer Best Buy has been given antitrust approval to buy digital music service Napster, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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