Napster Ponders Sale or Alliance
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Napster said that it had hired UBS Investment Bank to assist in the possible sale of the company.
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U.S. music-downloading service Napster has launched a preview version of its Napster To Go portable music service, which incorporates  Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) latest digital-rights management software, Janus.
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Deal masks an interest in controversial digital content distribution patents?
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p2pnet.net News:- Any lingering doubts as to whether or not the record label cartel has embarked on an all-out, across the board war against former clients to bludgeon them into buying &#39;product&#39; have been dispelled.
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A soft IT market is weighing on the storage company.
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Call it the kitty's third life. Roxio Inc. bought the Napster brand name and feline logo at a bankruptcy auction two years ago and with the acquisition of another music service, pressplay, relaunched the once-renegade file-swapping pioneer as a legal music service last October.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)--Napster Japan Inc., a joint venture between Tower Records Japan Inc. and Napster LLC, said Thursday it has signed up more than 260 companies to provide content for the online music download service it plans to launch in Japan shortly.
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Napster Creator Unleashes New File Sharing Service  Napster was a revolutionary product. It practically gave birth to the p2p industry on the Internet. It has lead to a stage that big corporations of the music industry are practically scared of losing a major chunk of their business from this phenomenon. And ...
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LOS ANGELES: The recording industry has turned to its former arch-nemesis, the founder of online music file-swapping service Napster, to help it beat the piracy that it once accused him of spawning.
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Talk about changing your tune: Shawn Fanning, whose Napster software made it possible for music lovers to get songs over the Internet without paying for them, is going legit.
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MacCentral - Digital music service Napster LLC on Thursday announced the release of Napster To Go, a new Windows-compatible portable digital music subscription service that lets user move an unlimited number of songs songs from Napster to compatible MP3 players for a US&#36;14.95 monthly fee. A &#36;30 million marketing campaign kicks off Sunday during this year's Super Bowl, and is aimed squarely at Apple's iTunes Music Store.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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Napster Inc, one of the largest  digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling  downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this  year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought  online.
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The web portal is reportedly in talks with major record labels to begin selling or even giving away unprotected music files.
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Napster founder Shawn Fanning has returned to the online downloading arena with the approval of some significant members of the music industry.
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Apple and EMI's agreement to offer DRM-free music tracks is unlikely to be threatened by the record label's changing ownership. In fact, say some analysts, the choice may have been a demonstration to potential investors of the company's forward-thinking ways.