What is Napster?
Napster 101
A primer to get you up to speed on how the service works and tips for beginners.
TIME Digital, April 14, 2000
What about Scour.com?
New DivX is the MP3 of Movie Swapping
But expect frustrations — the revolution is still in early beta
TIME Digital, August 17, 2000
Controversy and Lawsuits
MP3.com ordered to pay up to $250 million in music copyright case
A federal judge on Wednesday found that MP3.com willfully violated the copyrights of Universal Music Group, and ordered the Internet music sharing company to pay Universal $25,000 per compact disc, or as much as $250 million.
CNN.com, September 6, 2000
Report: Napster banned at 34 percent of U.S. colleges
Thirty-four percent of U.S. colleges and universities have banned the music file trading program Napster for Internet users surfing over campus servers, according to a report from technology market research company Gartner Group
CNN.com, August 31, 2000
Napster stirs apprehension in movie industry
What thought keeps film and publishing executives awake at night? The thought that what happened to the music industry will happen to them
CNN.com, August 28, 2000
Taps for Napster?
Record companies want to kill the music pirates favorite site. This week they tell it to the judge
TIME Magazine, July 31, 2000
Pirates Like Us?
Napster fans spread the word — and the tech
TIME Digital Magazine, June 2000
Napster's Strange Bedfellows Include Metallica and Yale University
Last week Metallica sued Napster and three colleges — Yale, the University of Southern California and Indiana University — for copyright infringement and racketeering.
TIME Digital, April 20, 2000
Napster Changes Tune for College Campuses
Napster, the controversial service that allows users to share MP3 files over the Internet, announced yesterday that it is making changes to the way its program works in order to appease colleges across the country who have banned students from using the software.
TIME Digital, March 24, 2000
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