Fanning: Napster Guru Unveils Legal File-Sharing Technology
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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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(InfoWorld) - In another blow to peer-to-peer file sharing, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Morpheus software program encouraged users to infringe upon copyrighted works. StreamCast Networks, the owner of Morpheus, "cannot seriously argue that it did not know that the popular music and movies traded on its network were copyrighted," wrote U.S. district judge Stephen V. Wilson. The ruling is another win for record and film companies, which sought an injunction against distribution of the file-sharing software in the suit, filed in 2001. StreamCast continued to fight after two other companies named in the suit, Grokster and Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing client,Â reach settlementsÂ with the entertainment industry. StreamCast said it could consider appealing, saying the software has legal uses. "We do not believe that StreamCast encouraged users to infringe on copyrighted works, and the company never intended to do so," the company said in a statement. File-sharing software companies have been battered by a string of successful legal suits by the entertainment industry. In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court found that both StreamCast andÂ Grokster could be held liableÂ for copyright infringements by users. Earlier this month, MetaMachine, which distributed the eDonkey client software,Â settled a copy infringement caseÂ with the record industry for $30 million. Just weeks prior, Sharman Networks agreed to pay $100 million to end outstanding lawsuits with the entertainment industry. Major record companies and movies studios have used aggressive legal tactics against illegal file sharing, suing both software companies and individual users, in an effort to halt falling revenues attributed to piracy.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Napster creator Shawn Fanning, who turned the music industry on its head with his file trading technology, has re-emerged with a new company that hopes to facilitate agreements between peer-to-peer services and the record companies, making it easier for
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Shawn Fanning il giovane fondatore di Napster, un tempo nemico giurato delle major musicali, torna alla ribalta per il lancio di Snocap un sistema di condivisione file che permetterÃ  alle major di acquisire royalties ad ogni download di brano musicale.
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Bill Pence, Napster's chief technology officer, questions the wisdom of proprietary music DRM in his response to a recent Wired News column. In Listening Post.
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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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The dizzying array of file formats and anti-piracy options will hobble the burgeoning digital music business, says one of the developers behind the format that sparked the download revolution.
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Internet music download company Napster Inc. on Tuesday launched a Japanese service aimed at tapping a growing market for music-to-go, the company said.
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Nobody ever made an illusion towards the fact that Sean Fanning, founder of the popular music sharing program back in the ol days Napster, would make it back in the software world.
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Investors appear enthusiastic about the prospect of a pure-play Napster.
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A site for searching, compiling and downloading music called BlogMusik acts like a publicly available online iPod for anyone to use. And it's only the beginning of a movement that could become the "Napster" of Web 2.0.  In Listening Post.
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Napster developer Shawn Fanning is back with a new file-sharing program -- but this time it&#39;s legit. Without revealing all the details of his new venture, Snocap, Inc.
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New music sharing network allows users to amass points by referring buyers.
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The man whose Napster software let lots of music fans swap songs on the Internet for free is now working to help the music companies who once sued him out of business.
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Shawn Fanning, the founder of the original Napster peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network, is set to unveil his new music download-related service called SNOCAP this week.
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The creator of Napster in the works of making a legal file-sharing network.  Also:  Red Herring publisher to create a Blogozine & hellip;.  Intel's fourth quarter looks up & hellip;. and more.