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Napster faces new lawsuits
News As Napster's hopes for a win in court dim, the line of companies and musicians looking for their piece of the legal action is growing by the day. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Napster Debate.
[March 8, 2001, 9:06]
Napster hit with lawsuit from rock group Metallica
News The rock group Metallica has sued Napster and several colleges, claiming, among other things, that they violated copyright law by allowing illegal swapping of its music. This is the first time a music group has gone after Napster, the controversial...
[April 14, 2000, 8:27]
Napster tells court filters are working
News After a year of legal fits and starts -- and repeated attempts to clean up some copyright violations on its own -- Napster's antipiracy efforts are finally official. Although the company has had its screens up for a week -- and has been fine-tuning...
[March 13, 2001, 10:23]
Napster changes its tune
News Napster, the popular Internet music search program, has changed the inner workings of its software to appease the many universities that have banned the program for clogging up campus networks. The alterations are a result of an unusual...
[March 23, 2000, 12:39]
Napster gains another powerful ally
News Klein's appointment comes just a few months after Bertelsmann's surprising step to take a minority stake in Napster, the company whose software for swapping music files has created a legal firestorm over music distribution and copyright protection...
[February 1, 2001, 10:04]
Napster easier to use with software update
News Despite the uncertain outcome of a court case that threatens to deal Napster a potentially fatal blow, the music-swapping service has released an updated version of its software that makes it easier to find specific songs and bands.
[December 27, 2000, 10:44]
Napster gets funding, new CEO
News Hummer Winblad partners Hank Barry and John Hummer will join the Napster board of directors, and Barry will become interim CEO of Napster. What do you think? Tell the Mailroom. And read what others have said.
[May 22, 2000, 14:02]
Judge: Napster efforts 'disgraceful'
News A federal judge was sharply critical on Tuesday of Napster's attempts to block trades of copyrighted music, calling the company's existing filters "disgraceful". RIAA representatives said Tuesday that Napster is now on notice to run hundreds of...
[April 11, 2001, 13:07]
Napster: Throw out the case!
News Defence lawyers for Napster late Friday urged a federal appeals court to dismiss a lower court ruling that could effectively shut down the popular online music-swapping service. Separately, Napster's chief executive told reporters the company has...
[August 21, 2000, 8:43]
Napster, Gnutella... and Josef Stalin?
News During a single 30 minute speech Monday, the man in charge of the "vision" for Time Warner and AOL's marriage compared Napster, Gnutella and the rest of the file-swapping community to Satan, Cold War communists and airplane hijackers.
[July 25, 2000, 9:22]
Napster marches back to court
News The court battle between Napster foes and fans rears its head again Wednesday. That's when the recording industry will ask a federal judge to stop Napster from posting certain songs to its music-sharing site.
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
Napster: Guerilla tactics will hamper RIAA
News Gagging Napster may be the easiest task the RIAA has to face. Napster clones using similar protocol technologies promise to continue the MP3 free-for-all as the underground online music scene looks set to fight back.
[July 27, 2000, 12:33]
Napster alternatives booming
News The 21 million-plus Napster users expecting to find themselves homeless on Friday have already begun migrating to Napigator, Angry Coffee and Gigabeat, music-sharing sites that have seen huge spikes in traffic and downloads.
[July 28, 2000, 8:19]
Napster bans Manic Street Preacher fans
News The controversial online music swapping service Napster has blocked Manic Street Preacher fans from sharing unreleased tracks from the forthcoming album Know Your Enemy. Napster users accused of copying and swapping Manic Street Preacher songs...
[February 8, 2001, 15:42]
Napster appeal: don't shut us down
News Saying jobs and the company's future are at stake, Napster filed an emergency motion Thursday seeking to delay a federal order that could bring its song-swapping service to a grinding halt Friday at midnight Pacific Time.
[July 28, 2000, 9:24]
Napster comes to the office
News Napster isn't just a big app on campus any more. The at-work traffic numbers more than doubled the number of Napster users since May, when there were 417,000 PCs in the workplace using the file-swapping application.
[September 12, 2000, 8:26]
News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld
News According to early reports from America, a US court has partly upheld an injunction against song-swapping site Napster. Judges at the Court of Appeals in San Francisco will issue its ruling Monday on the recording industry's request that Napster be...
[February 12, 2001, 17:33]
Napster plays the Betamax card
News Lawyers for the music sharing application Napster will employ the epic Sony Betamax video ruling of 1984 to defend the company from imminent closure. In its 'Friends of The Court' submission, Napster will say that Sony won by arguing that even if a...
[September 14, 2000, 8:37]
Napster case makes strange bedfellows
News On the surface, the Napster lawsuit might seem like a tale about a bunch of ragtag college students trying to stick it to the record industry. Napster also raises questions about the scope of the Audio Home Recording Act, a 1992 law that allows...
[September 14, 2000, 15:09]
Napster founder unveils new P2P venture
News With $10m in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. After more than a year of silence, Fanning himself is now outlining...
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
