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  • Net music in a post-Napster world

    With Napster and other online threats to major record labels on the ropes, the task of challenging the status quo at a major Net music gathering fell to one of the industry's biggest profit generators: singer Alanis Morissette.

  • Napster fans up in arms about record sales

    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.

  • Music giants seek to divide, conquer

    A deal between the major record labels and music publishers removed a significant speed bump delaying the arrival of online music subscription services, but it didn't end the rough ride.

  • Online music: Which services are worth paying for?

    RealNetworks and others are hoping you'll pony up for access to "exclusive" online content. But if the available for-pay offerings--including Real's SuperPass Gold--are any indication, you've got to be careful what you sign up for.

  • The keys to the online music kingdom

    RealNetworks and Microsoft are once again on a collision course as each seeks to convince the music industry that it has the best technology for thwarting the swapping of copyrighted songs.

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  • Roxio taps Fanning for Napster take two

    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.

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