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  • Napster court win puts labels in spotlight

    A federal judge has given file-swapping company Napster a significant win in court, ordering new scrutiny of the big record labels' ownership rights to music that could affect their own online plans.

  • Looking for the next Napster

    As Napster collapses slowly into a musical black hole, millions of people who once searched painlessly for free music on the Web are hunting for the next online file-swapping utopia. Take a look at the options.

  • Music trading heads back underground

    The new face of file-swapping service Napster and the scattering of its visitors are proof of how far the record labels and Hollywood have come in defusing the biggest online threat to their businesses.

  • Morpheus lures artists with no-copy plan

    StreamCast Networks, the creator of the popular Morpheus file-trading software, is set to unveil a plan that it hopes will help it become a more legitimate means of music distribution.

  • P2P: Love your enemy

    Ian Clarke would love to sign up major entertainment companies as P2P clients for his new company, Uprizer. But will major copyright holders be willing to do business with a company whose most famous employee believes that copyright is obsolete?

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