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Listen.com Flirts With Napster Links
News Listen.com, a music directory service partly funded by major record labels, is shedding a little of its squeaky-clean image with a new song-search service that plugs directly into Napster's software. The company has added a function that triggers...
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
Legal Battles Boost Napster To Number One
News Napster.com unseated RealPlayer.com as the busiest entertainment site last week in some surveys, while its potential shutdown helped other MP3-file-sharing sites reach record traffic levels, as well. According to PC Data Online, Napster had 5.8...
[August 1, 2000, 9:01]
EMusic Wants Napster Users Banished
News Embattled MP3 site EMusic.com has asked Napster to block access to 600 of its users who have supposedly been trading EMusic tunes illegally through the controversial file-swapping application. EMusic.com chief executive Gene Hoffman called the...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
Mr Napster Goes To Washington
News The Committee was holding a fact-finding session on the issue of digital downloading, which is currently the subject of a number of lawsuits between services such as Napster and MP3.com and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
[July 11, 2000, 16:49]
The Taming Of A Generation As MP3.com Is Bought
News Although its star was eclipsed by Napster in the last two years, MP3.com and chief executive Michael Robertson were standard-bearers for an often quixotic campaign against the major record labels as online music grew into a mainstream phenomenon...
[May 22, 2001, 9:48]
Net Laughs At Itself On April Fool's
News GigaLaw.com's Sidd Finch, who wrote the spoof on Napster's financial and legal woes, joked that funds for Microsoft's acquisition of the file-swapping service were provided by former dot-commers, including ex-Webvan CEO George Shaheen.
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Napster To Name New Chief
News A Napster representative refused to comment on the impending executive switch, which was first reported by CNET News.com. On a panel at the MP3.com summit earlier this month, former Napster marketing executive Liz Brooks joked that Napster should...
[July 24, 2001, 9:07]
Swap This! EMusic Takes On Napster
News Music subscription site EMusic.com has begun using software it claims can spot any of its 140,000 songs that are being traded illegally by Napster users. Napster got a new enemy Tuesday, and this time it's one of its own.
[November 22, 2000, 8:29]
Shoot To Kill: Media Enforcer Stalks Napster
News In an interview with Zeropaid.com the programmer talks about how Media Enforcer could even throw a spanner in the workings of Napster's would-be successor 'Freenet'. An anti-Napster program called the Media Enforcer has been created by an anonymous...
[June 2, 2000, 10:34]
Online Music Trading Will Survive Napster, Say Experts
News Most recently Napster-style service Scour.com has grabbed headlines by making major films available for download as well as music and other content. Napster, the popular online service for exchanging digital music files, has been slapped with a...
[July 27, 2000, 14:23]
Chuck D: Music Wants To Be Free
News As evidence of how much influence the Internet has had on the music industry in recent years -- particularly because of the high-profile litigation against Napster, MP3.com, and others -- the conference featured multiple Web panels.
[October 23, 2000, 12:12]
Vitaminic Buys FranceMP3
News Vitaminic is now the third-largest music download site in the world, after MP3.com and Napster. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Napster Debate. Just days after purchasing the UK's Peoplesound, a Net-based music label, Vitaminic has...
[June 12, 2001, 9:09]
Audiogalaxy Moves To Legal Downloads
News Audiogalaxy's adoption of Listen.com's Rhapsody service is reminiscent of Napster's one-time goals, before that company ultimately collapsed under the weight of record industry lawsuits. At one time, Audiogalaxy was among the most popular of the...
[September 10, 2002, 9:02]
Napster Appeal: Don't Shut Us Down
News Napster.com was also slowed by an influx of users who were apparently trying to download as much music as they could before the injunction takes effect. Saying jobs and the company's future are at stake, Napster filed an emergency motion Thursday...
[July 28, 2000, 9:24]
MP3.com Assets Sold
News But the rise of Napster and file-swapping did as much to eclipse MP3.com's star. With free access to major label and other music available through Napster, people flocked to it and other trading networks instead.
[November 17, 2003, 9:40]
Streaming Napster Style App Hits The Web
News While Napster is currently undergoing litigation from the Recording Industry Association of America and Gnutella, a Napster style application, was ripped down by AOL after one day on the Web, MP3.com is being sued by .It alleges that its Beam-it...
[April 4, 2000, 15:18]
Napster Buyout Blocked
News File-swapping services remain as popular as they ever were in Napster's day, with leader Kazaa still attracting more than 2.5 million downloads of its software in a week, according to Download.com, a software aggregation site operated by CNET...
[September 4, 2002, 7:36]
EMusic Offers Subscription Service
News In a release, EMusic said the new subscription service offered a "legitimate alternative to Napster", the music site that has gained fame and legal scrutiny by helping users copy digital music from one another.
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
A Year Ago: Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News While the RIAA's offices were off on Friday and its staff not available for comment, Emusic.com's Kohn thinks that Napster could be the testing case for the recently passed copyright law. Colouring within the legal lines is not all that Napster is...
[August 17, 2000, 7:00]
Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News While the RIAA's offices were off on Friday and its staff not available for comment, Emusic.com's Kohn thinks that Napster could be the testing case for the recently passed copyright law. Colouring within the legal lines is not all that Napster is...
[August 17, 1999, 13:32]
