Napster is back, with an inescapable marketing campaign that's put the familiar kitty-with-earphones logo everywhere, from Yahoo Mail boxes to stickers seen on the streets of San Francisco.
RealNetworks has given a first public look at the company's MusicNet subscription service, outlining features that resemble Napster's file-swapping service.
The music industry shows no mercy as Napster struggles for its survival. Two new lawsuits seek unspecified damages. And a class action decision looms.
Napster, one of original and best-known music sharing brands, has become a thorn in the side of its parent Bertelsmann because of its AU$400 million legal bill.
No longer the poster child for free online music, Napster's flagging file-swapping service has turned into a testing ground for ways to control other services that are capturing its one-time popularity.
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Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but with a difference.
Over the holidays, Napster unleashed the latest version of its song-swapping beast. To the great relief of music lovers around the world, the new incarnation is free to use. While the developers have added minor improvements and bug fixes, the latest revision also has some serious flaws.
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The developer of a peer-to-peer file-sharing plug-in for Apple Computer's iTunes music application has decided to give the software a new lease on life, after it was put out of commission by the computer maker's lawyers earlier this month.
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