As legal clouds darken the prospects for music-trading service Napster, other young file-swapping services are struggling to determine whether they have a place in the Net's future.
At the core of Napster's proposed subscription model is an idea so simple the record companies should fall all over themselves adopting it: Make other people pay for millions of dollars in costs the labels pick up today.
Napster's plans to block some music from its system could put pressure on other file-swapping services to do the same, but don't expect any rush to filter.
Computer scientist and entrepreneur Gene Kan draws lessons from the history of P2P to warn what often happens when people get overly excited about new technologies.
Embattled Napster Chief Executive Hank Barry took the stage at a conference of librarians at the weekend to speak about the thorny issues surrounding his troubled song-swap company--issues that could soon vex libraries as well.
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