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CONTRIBUTORS: Stuart Andrews, Barry Collins, Tim Danton, Jon Honeyball, Nicole Kobie, Dick Pountain, Nik Rawlinson, Davey Winder They say a week is a long time in politics, but it is [...]

Elizabeth Nelson The New York Times Magazine The entertainment industry has decided that piracy was good for everyone after all, said Elizabeth Nelson. A new, Eminem-produced documentary, How Music Got [...]

Byline: Ben Rogerson 'Who makes albums anymore, anyway?' he asks If you believe the headlines, the album has 'died' more times than a third-rate comedian. First Napster was to be [...]

As we've seen throughout this series, any portable audio revolution is usually preceded by years, or even decades, of research and development before an idea reaches a level of maturity [...]

Lady Gaga's boyfriend, Michael Polansky, is a tech CEO who works for Napster cofounder and former Facebook president Sean Parker. Polansky attended Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg, [...]

1999--The Year The Music Business Lost Control Eamonn Forde **** Omnibus, 30 [pound sterling] ISBN 9781913172770, 576 pages Sleepwalking from digital to disaster Author Forde made his mark with Selling [...]

Byline: Asia Milia Ware Not-so-fun fact: The United States hasn't gotten a new UV filter in sunscreen since 1999. Just to put that into context: Beyoncé was still part of [...]

BY STEVE KNOPPER ON MARCH 4, hundreds of metalheads stormed into Pierce the Veil’s pop-up store in Glendale, Calif., scooping up T-shirts, hoodies and other merchandise. In the process, they [...]

A first decentralized brand for sneakers has seen the light of digital day on a platform created by a company called Madeium and run in part with tech from a [...]

Global Banking News-January 5, 2023-Netcapital Names Former Accenture Strategy Exec as CEO (C)2023 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk Fintech Netcapital Inc. (NASDAQ: NCPL) (NASDAQ: NCPLW) has appointed company director and former managing [...]

Byline: Nate Drake Discover what P2P really is, and how peer-to-peer can do for you. In the context of networking, peer-to-peer (P2P) is a way in which devices can communicate [...]

Rosie Hattersley @RosieHattersley Rosie Hattersley writes tech, craft, and life hacks and tweets @RosieHattersley. In the late 20th century battle of the global consumer brands, Sony took the crown for [...]

Nicole Kobie is PC Pro’s futures editor and she’s had a lot of retro internet experiences lately. What’s next? MySpace? Napster? LulzSec? @njkobie My sister and her family visited me [...]

The music industry may have dealt with a lot since Napster first disrupted its business model, but it's never had to deal with anything like this. In just a few [...]

Napster is rebranding around cryptocurrencies and NFT's, according to Bloomberg. The company, which gained notoriety for giving away music, will launch its own native token under the ticker $NAPSTER. Users [...]

BY MICAH SINGLETON ILLUSTRATION BY SHIRA INBAR FOR ONCE IN ITS HISTORY, the music industry has embraced an emerging technology in its infancy, contradicting its decadeslong history of shunning evolution [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench Compulsory licensing limits the arbitrary use of a creative work and may aid in the long-term resurrection of the revenue flow in the music business. Music [...]

The article focuses on Daniel Ek, the creator of the streaming music service Spotify. Information is provided on how Spotify has gained widespread popularity among consumers because it can be used through the social network website Facebook. It is popular among music industry insiders because it entices consumers away from piracy and provides a sustainable revenue model for streaming audio services. Ek cites the creation of the music piracy website Napster as one of the main sources of his inspiration and is confident that Spotify will be able to compete with the online music store iTunes.

Reports on the ongoing battle over a 19 year-old court decision known as Sony Corp.of America v. Universal City Studios, or the Betamax case. How the decision allows the manufacturers of equipment to copy films and music absolved from copyright infringement; Changes in technology which has stirred the debate once again; Inability at the time for companies to prove a loss of income from piracy which has changed following the influence of Napster; Exploitation of loopholes which resulted from a ruling against Napster in July 2001; How some companies moved offshore to avoid the U.S. law; Consideration of the ongoing litigation to clarify who is responsible for piracy when downloading music and taping movies.

Media giant Bertelsmann learned a lesson from its alliance in late 2000 with music file-sharing service Napster and faces over $17 billion in copyright infringement lawsuits. Though Bertelsmann's staid board has long since tried to wash its hands of the whole embarrassing affair--and of the would-be visionary CEO, Thomas Middelhoff, who succumbed to Napster's pirated siren song--Napster is not yet done with Bertelsmann. The $17 billion is the sum that a class of songwriters and music publishers claim Bertelsmann owes for allegedly having kept Napster's file sharing going eight months longer than it otherwise would have. Pointing to Bertelsmann documents that surfaced during Napster's bankruptcy proceedings last summer, for instance, the plaintiffs claim that Napster and Bertelsmann specifically agreed to keep Napster's original, presumptively illegitimate service--code-named Thunderball--in operation while they developed a fully licensed pay service. A Bertelsmann loan to Napster was convertible to equity only upon the industry's "acceptance" of Napster--which was defined as the point at which at least one other major label, a major music publisher, and a large independent label all agreed to license Napster their catalogs. INSET: It seemed like a good idea....

Discusses the effects of digital piracy on the entertainment industry. How people can download music, motion pictures, and television programs from the Internet; Use of file-sharing software such as Kazaa, Gnutella, and Direct Connect; Importance of a decentralized business strategy; Controversy over the legality of products made by 321 Studios; Efforts of privacy and consumer organizations to protect customers; Speculation that future compact discs may be impossible to copy. INSET: TO PAY OR TO PIRATE?.

Shares some ideas about Napster, the free software people use to share their music collection over the Internet. Importance of the legal decisions surrounding the firm Napster; Music business' opposition to Napster; Extension of basic concepts about the meaning of freedom in a democracy.

Mentions significant events in science and technology in 2000. Construction of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, New York; Decoding of human DNA; Court battle waged by the music industry against music file-sharing system Napster; Debate over genetically modified foods; Inhabitation of the space station; First casualty to gene therapy. INSET: Untitled, by Philip Elmer-DeWitt.

Reports on the apparent deal between media conglomerate Bertelsmann and Internet file-sharing service, Napster, as of November 2000. Reasons why Bertelsmann head Thomas Middelhoff wanted to meet with Napster founder Shawn Fanning; Possibilities for their relationship; Plans for the two companies to provide access to music files while protecting copyright privileges of artists and the music industry.