napster in comment and analysis
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Is Sling Media yet another P2P file-sharing company such as Napster, Grokster, Kazaa? Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield looks at what's accelerating that trend and giving businesses easy remote access to video. [24 Oct 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Tuning in to YouTube
Comment It may only be a matter of time before YouTube becomes embroiled in the kind of discussions that dogged Napster over hosting copyrighted material but searches of the site still reveal far more user-generated content than copyrighted material... [04 Sep 2006]
Radioactive: Crazy Frog's legacy - it's boomtime for ringtones
Comment Even with Apple's success with iTunes, US pollster Ipsos found that Napster remains the most recognised online music brand, with some 80 per cent of teenagers recognising the brand. Legal downloads on the other hand have been driven by the use of... [16 Jan 2006]
Bram Cohen
AS Profile P2P file sharing may have first made headlines with Napster but it's the free BitTorrent which is now occupying significant portions of the traffic on the internet. The man credited for creating the BitTorrent file-sharing technology, Bram Cohen... [23 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Customer needs, part 2
Comment If you had been a music industry executive when Napster burst onto the scene, what would you have thought and done? Buy Napster, sell ring tones, link sales to posters, magazines, t-shirts, calendars, clothing etc. [29 Apr 2005]
Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let the people decide
Leader Still, the news isn't ideal for consumers - anyone thinking of swapping their iTunes-bought music from an iPod to a Zen Micro, or transferring their Napster-bought music the other way, will have a real problem. [07 Apr 2005]
Leader: iPod as storage cure-all
Leader With Napster's recent revamp and Sony's poker-chip music-player launch, weak-stomached analysts have been getting the jitters and proclaiming that Apple's sky is teetering on the verge of falling in. Is it really? [16 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Little sympathy for the music industry
Comment Paradoxically, one of the sharpest declines in the sale of recorded music occurred just after the RIAA had the original Napster shut down. But Martin Brampton reveals the other side of their story. Have you been shedding tears for the music industry? [25 Jan 2005]
Leader: Still lots to learn from online music pirates
Leader One million songs can be found in iTunes' or Napster's catalogue - essentially, according to the IFPI, all of those 230 are offering a greater or lesser version of the same thing. The number of legal digital music downloads has risen 1,000 per cent... [20 Jan 2005]
Way to win in online music? Sign a star
Comment When Napster first got up and running, I was immediately very excited, and appalled at where it might lead us," he said, praising Apple for finding the right response with its iTunes store. Online music services are scurrying to build relationships... [29 Nov 2004]
Is Apple turning its back on iPod customers?
Comment During the height of the Napster controversy, the sides remained too far apart to figure out how to make it work: You either believed that bits and bytes should be free or dismissed Napster as the epitome of corrosive cyberanarchism. [06 Aug 2004]
Leader: Are download services the new free ISPs?
Leader So after what seems like dozens of launches for legal digital music download services over the past year, imagine our déjà vu this week when it was announced that The Sun has teamed up with Roxio-owned Napster to offer its readers free - though... [23 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.07.04
Round-Up Napster has evolved into such a company. If the sight of a semi-inebriated father dancing at his teenage daughter's birthday party is the height of embarrassment then the sight of a former underground online music service gone corporate but... [23 Jul 2004]
The weekly Round-Up: 18.06.04
Comment NTL and Napster were making googly eyes at each other this week as they announced a deal that will see the online music pioneer bundle its service with the broadband company's fat pipe subscriptions (see here). [18 Jun 2004]
Analysis: Search engines take the stand
Comment Yahoo's search engine popped up in the landmark Napster copyright case four years ago, and Oregon police tried to track a criminal defendant accused of firearm violations through Yahoo searches. Internet search engines, especially Google, are... [13 May 2004]
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