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Napster must stay offline

US court judgement means Napster must prove it can block trading of major-label songs Read more

12 July, 2001 by Evan Hansen and Lisa M.Bowman

Software stops illegal song trading

A network-security firm is about to launch a tool that identifies and blocks copyrighted songs as they are being swapped over the Internet Read more

21 April, 2004 by John Borland

Is the heyday of the MP3 coming to a close?

...Net-monitoring company CacheLogic, early this month showed that MP3 still dominates song trading on file-swapping networks. The company tracked two major ISP networks... Read more

18 October, 2004 by John Borland

RIAA sues 261 swappers

...a turning point in the industry's three-year fight against online song-trading services like Kazaa and the now-defunct Napster, and one of... Read more

9 September, 2003 by John Borland

RIAA: Madster flouting court order

...and that Deep be fined $1,500 (about £960) a day until song-trading stops. Madster has claimed to have about 9,000 subscribers paying... Read more

22 November, 2002 by John Borland

News Schmooze: Record companies smack Net users

...use of two new weapons in the battle against peer-to-peer song trading: hiring third parties to distribute fake songs across the Net, and... Read more

5 July, 2002 by ZDNet UK

MP3 for sale online in industry first

...peer) networks for free." Record companies have lashed out against illegal online song trading by working to lock down their recordings with a variety of... Read more

24 May, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

Napster issues first round of layoffs

...meteoric history. The company has been struggling to turn its once-anarchic song-trading service into a viable business that has both revenue and the... Read more

25 October, 2001 by John Borland

Napster gets temporary reprieve

...Francisco stays a week-old decision ordering the company to block all song trading through its service, unless it could block 100 percent of the... Read more

19 July, 2001 by John Borland

Napster clones toe music industry line

The record industry's attempts to stop online song trading are gaining traction beyond Napster, as other leading music-swapping sites... Read more

9 April, 2001 by John Borland

Net music - the courts played on

...ordering the company to shut down much of its hugely popular online song-trading service. Even though the decision was quickly put on hold by... Read more

22 December, 2000 by John Borland

Rage: Sorry about the Napster ban

...string of bands whose fans found themselves barred from the popular Napster song-trading service after trading copyrighted tracks. The band shares management company QPrime... Read more

18 December, 2000 by John Borland

Napster ate bandwidth like nobody's business

...the Net. No matter how the Napster case is finally resolved, online song trading is one genie that the music industry won't be able... Read more

31 July, 2000 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

The Napster debate is missing the mark

...MP3 is just a compression technology. It can be used for illegal song trading or the legitimate selling of music. As I've said, the... Read more

31 May, 2000 by Gene Hoffman

Madster in deep trouble, say record labels

...form necessary and that Deep be fined $1,500 a day until song trading stops. Madster has claimed to have about 9,000 subscribers paying... Read more

22 November, 2002 by CNET Networks

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