The release of industry figures show that 2000 was the best year in the music industry's history. Free-music lovers are using these results as evidence of Napster's mistreatment.
MP3.com plans to make its extensive online music database and streaming technology available for free to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service.
Every day someone new pipes up and promises cool and exciting means to encrypt music files. But nothing seems to work. Will there ever be a secure digital music format?
Rock band Rage Against The Machine is offering an olive branch to fans angry about being booted from Napster last week, posting a long list of otherwise unavailable songs and videos to its Web site.
CenterSpan Communications has won the rights to the file-swapping technology of Scour, planting the seeds of a potential competitor to Napster's new music service.
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