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Future of Napster

by Steve Gibson May 15, 2000 2:19pm CST tags: Wack News, RIAA
There is an interestingarticle up on Wired (Thanks Goddimus) discussing the future of Napster and the companypossibly striking a deal with the RIAA. It then continues with the (obvious) notion thatthere really is no stopping the "idea" and if they do take down Napster thereare several programs waiting to take its place. With Napster recently cooperating with Metallica bybanning users it looks like those guys are at least "playing ball" with them andRIAA. I dont know about "selling out" or anything though.

It's really going to be interesting to see what the reaction in the hacker community will be if Napster is forced to sign a deal with the recording industry,"  [snip] "Regardless of the future of Napster, file-trading applications will continue to exist on the Web"

Oh yeah, and -sKunK- dugup this article with a predictionof jail terms by a senior official for end users downloading MP3s.

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