napster in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Software licensing - time to get angry
Comment Along with many others I was bemused by the music industry destroying Napster and the MP3 Wars that followed. It's all down to current licensing, which just has to change. When I first started in personal computing most software came on floppy... [14 Nov 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who'd be a copyright lawyer?
Comment Having successfully killed Napster they have turned their attention to P2P, ISPs and box shifters. Imagine, just a few years from now, being able to store every film and song ever released on a single device. [10 Oct 2002]
"I hack you in the name of the law"
Comment Even with Napster in its death throws for most of 2001, Britney Spears barely managed to clear $30m last year. Put down your headphones, stop listening to your MP3s and let's pretend we all agree peer-to-peer file sharing is a bad thing - and, like... [27 Sep 2002]
High-tech VIPs and the silicon.com curse
Comment The past few months have already seen the demise of Jean-Marie Messier, ex of Vivendi Universal (our number four), Thomas Middelhoff, ex of Bertelsmann (seven), Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom (28) and now Shaun Fanning, the creator of Napster (39). [04 Sep 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Stupidity on an industrial scale
Comment We all watched in amazement as the music industry decided not to embrace the Napster concept, to seize the opportunity to create a new style business of online music sales that would have been supported by most. [29 Aug 2002]
Murdoch and Napster - when worlds collide
Comment Do you remember the heyday of Napster? Did you use it? If so, do you consider yourself amoral? Well, some very powerful people think you are. News Corp president Peter Chernin has come out with some inflammatory phrases. [22 Aug 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The 3G chasm - deeper than we thought
Comment The music industry is under severe attack from Napster-like services where people can download MP3 files and bypass the entire production, sales, marketing and delivery chain. Some governments chose to give away 3G spectrum licences. [01 Aug 2002]
Anti-piracy ménage a trois?
Comment Metallica's Ulrich is well-known in the music industry for his high-profile opposition to Napster. So far the notoriously uncompetitive music industry has merely used the courts to shut down innovative services such as Napster whilst failing to... [12 Jul 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's 3G plans, IBM's web services plans, and Napster's survival plans
Comment Whether or not Napster 2002 emerges from the ashes is yet to be seen. Napster 2002* In the latest twist Napster has now filed for bankruptcy through Chapter 11 just weeks after founder Shaun Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers resigned and then rejoined... [17 Jun 2002]
Pressplay fast-forwards the future of music
Comment Pressplay is the music industry's answer to Napster. Backed by Sony and Universal it will allow users to download tracks and burn them onto CDs. The snag for those used to unlimited free MP3 downloads is you have to pay the suits at Sony for the... [11 Dec 2001]
Technologies that time forgot: 3Com's 3+Open
Comment It took Napster and the other music sharing sites to give P2P a sexy, mainstream edge but a decade earlier P2P meant network operating system. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when Shaun Fanning was still in short trousers and Sony Walkmans were... [30 Oct 2001]
The Ovum View: A future for micropayments?
Comment For example, you can expect the embattled Napster to make a high-profile move to embracing some type of pay-per-use initiative. Micropayments were hyped as the solution for content providers desperate to create a reliable revenue flow, but they... [17 Sep 2001]
Your password's the key to your soul
Comment Just when copyright owners thought it was safe to dip their toes into the murky waters of the internet in these post-Napster days, a new virtual fin has appeared on the horizon: people are now beginning to download entire books free of charge and... [24 Aug 2001]
Without peers: How P2P will become mainstream
Comment Headlines about Napster and Gnutella are seemingly everywhere and interest in peer-to-peer computing has become intense. The first and probably the most famous one is based on file sharing, in which users access resources on other users' machines... [09 Aug 2001]
Napster: A loud enough wake up call for media giants?
Comment Napster looks close to a deal that could save its bacon and EMI intends to develop a platform for legalising the burning of CDs from digital music on the net. Millions of people simply won't consume music in a pre-Napster fashion anymore. [05 Jun 2001]
Keep updated for stories matching napster in comment and analysis via RSS
