Napster loses its final battle against the RIAA, as music industry lawyers convince a judge to block the file-swapping company's US$9 million sale to Bertelsmann.
Bertelsmann's US$60 million wager on Napster falls flat, but the company is still up for the high-stakes online game.
A fight over control of computer hardware, fanned by music trading posts such as Napster and Gnutella, is pitting free-speech advocates against some of Silicon Valley's largest companies.
One-time file-swapping powerhouse Audiogalaxy, hobbled by a legal settlement with record labels, has launched a legal music offer in place of its old download service.
It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world.
It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world.
Peer-to-peer computing is hot, but what are we going to share now that we can't share music for free?
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