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Record company attorneys seeking a quick end to their copyright suit against Napster instead found themselves fielding pointed questions from a US federal judge over planned music subscription services.
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After successful suits against Napster, Scour and Aimster, the record industry and Hollywood studios are again flexing their muscles. The new plan: Sue file-trading networks Music City, Kazaa and Grokster.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in business, with a new vision of label-approved file trading.
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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.
KaZaa borrows best-of-breed features from Napster and Gnutella, but it serves up ads if you're not careful. Does this all add up to heavenly downloads? We'll tell you.
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