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Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Is Sling Media yet another P2P file-sharing company such as Napster, Grokster, Kazaa? The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield looks at what's accelerating that trend and giving... [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]
Free music downloads get Universal blessing
News Although billed by some as an iTunes competitor, SpiralFrog's idea is more akin to subscription services such as MTV's Urge or Napster. Users are required to go to the company's website each month to validate their music, or else it expires. [30 Aug 2006]
And finally: Microsoft to launch iPod rival
News As far as any device goes, she said Napster would welcome a cool product that works with its service but declined to comment on whether the Zune player would, in fact, work with Napster. Also unclear is whether rival music services, such as Napster... [24 Jul 2006]
BSkyB P2P deal warms studios to movie downloads
News We've taken the best of iTunes and Napster - the legal version of Napster - and we've tried to take the best of the web. He added: "The problem for the ISP if it neuters internet services and internet content, broadband subscribers will say, 'I've... [10 Jan 2006]
Illegal file-sharing three times as popular as iTunes
News A report from analyst house JupiterResearch discovered that consumers are three times more likely to get their digital music from illegal file-sharing networks than pay to download the tracks from online song shops such as iTunes and Napster, with... [29 Nov 2005]
iTunes.co.uk tug-of-war ends
News In this case, Apple cited the fact that it had registered the iTunes trademark, together with CyberBritain's offer to sell the domain for $50,000 (£29,000) just two days after Apple offered $5,000 for it, and CyberBritain's redirection of the... [23 Nov 2005]
Spyware, adware infects BitTorrent downloads
News Unlike peer-to-peer networks such as eDonkey, Kazaa or the original Napster, no central search technology exists for BitTorrent. According to observers of the trend, music and videos that hide applications which pop up ads on PC screens and track... [17 Jun 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. Of course - but there's more than enough... [16 Mar 2005]
Napster hack opens up music
News Napster has made headlines in recent weeks for kicking off its "Napster To Go" programme, which allows people to move songs downloaded through its unlimited subscription service to portable players for the first time. [16 Feb 2005]
Napster to give users one million songs for under £15
News The Napster to Go service works on a subscription model - for £14.95 a month, users can, monthly, take their pick from Napster's entire catalogue and load them onto one of five compatible music players: the Zen Micro and Portable Media Centre, the... [03 Feb 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. No natural law determines that some particular portion of it must go to 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. Compared with the pirates' catalogue, which doubtless makes iTunes... [20 Jan 2005]
1000 per cent rise in legal music downloads fails to kill pirates
News It was also the year that saw the UK launch of now-household names of iTunes and Napster. There's a lot more tracks digitised and waiting to go online - it does take time," she said. The number of downloaders in key European countries willing to... [20 Jan 2005]
Napster dresses up as Apple for price war
News Napster has also announced the upcoming launch of its subscription service Napster To Go, scheduled to debut this quarter. However, if a music fan lets their subscription lapse, all their Napster to Go tracks will disappear into the ether. [13 Jan 2005]
