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Jan 7 2010

Convicted File-Sharer: DRM-Free Tracks on KaZaA to Blame

Tenenbaum’s attorney argues in request for retrial that Joel Tenenbaum and other music listeners could not get “exactly the songs they wanted, in exactly the format they wanted” until the music industry did away with DRM in 2007, and that the availability of DRM-free tracks on Napster and KaZaA” contributed substantially to their immense public [...]

Dec 10 2009

10 Years of DeCSS and Xvid

Many recent articles on file-trading and the P2P community have noted that the Napster phenomenon occurred ten years ago, marking a decade of joy for down-loaders and despair for the big content companies.  Less noticed is that 2009 is also the tenth anniversary of another bit of crucial P2P technology, the DeCSS decrypting tool.  Publicly [...]

Nov 15 2009

The reports of P2P’s death remain greatly exaggerated

It is not often that one gets to see justice, of a sort anyway, happen so quickly.  Just Thursday, The Economist magazine, one of the most influential and widely read business news publications in the world, published an article and corresponding editorial crowing about how the problem of piracy in the music industry was coming [...]

Jun 11 2009

KPFA Radio Interviews ZeroPaid’s Jared Moya and Drew Wilson

Every once in a while, we are able to get an interview with someone who also knows a thing or two about file-sharing. Today, interestingly enough, the tables were turned and California’s radio station, KPFA 94.1 FM, interviewed us. The interview is currently available as in MP3 podcast format.
Recently, we wrote about the [...]

Jun 9 2009

10th Anniversary of Napster This Month

Some may not know it, but June is an interesting month for file-sharer’s. This year, June marks a major milestone for file-sharers. It was June, 1999 when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker released the first version of Napster – an application that has since changed the face of entertainment, the internet and copyright [...]

May 19 2009

Napster Offers Unlimited Streaming, 5 Downloads for $5p/mo

Tries to stay relevant with service that delivers music for the same price as iTune bundled with on-demand music streaming.
Napster, the proverbial godfather of music downloads, and whom, incidentally, is nearing its 10th anniversary, is trying to reinvent itself once again by bundling a service that combines streaming with MP3s.
For $5 p/mo (available to US [...]

Sep 19 2008

Best Buy to Acquire Napster 2.0 for $121 Million

The news may have been missed by some, but there is word that Napster could very likely be sold to Best Buy for $121 Million.
Napster has had quite a run with the media and Napster 2.0 seemed to make the headlines on a fairly regular basis with it’s supposedly revolutionary business model of a subscription [...]

Aug 31 2008

Napster 2.0 Could Be Put on the Auction Block

You’d think that with the passage of the Higher Education Act, which forces colleges and universities in the United States to block P2P and promote authorized music stores, that companies like Napster would have it made – obviously, that’s not the case.
It is starting to look like Napster may once again become a symbol in [...]

May 2 2007

Penn St. drops Napster for Ruckus music

Penn State’s groundbreaking arrangement with Napster is over.
The university will turn to Ruckus Network Inc. this fall to allow all enrolled students at its 24 campuses to legally listen to the nearly 3 million songs available through the service. Penn State’s ties to Napster will be severed in May.
The Napster partnership was the first of [...]

Apr 20 2007

Circuit City partners up with Napster to create ‘Circuit City + Napster’

The new digital music subscription service will offer 99-cent song download purchases in addition to Napster’s unlimited content streaming service.
Starting April 29, 2007, consumers can sign up for Circuit City + Napster at www.circuitcity.com/napster and gain unlimited access to millions of songs on their PCs and portable digital music players for $14.95 per month. [...]

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