Napster Faces the Music and Dances
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Napster is rocking, even if it's doing so before smaller crowds.
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Napster Inc. said on Tuesday its  digital music service is now available in Japan, which it  called the largest music market outside of the United States.
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Grokster, one of the best-known P2P services (at least one of the best-known by the RIAA &amp; co), has taken yet another step in its path to make its P2P service to please the record labels by teaming up with a start-up called Mercora to provide an artist
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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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Phony Sony, Maxel, TDK etc. Relive music piracy the way it used to be done, back in the days when even Shawn Fanning was a glint in someone's eye*, let alone his original Napster app and the P2P world it spawned. Yes, we're talking cassette tapes and a 21st Century take on this format of yesteryear.â¦
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Can we offer you a cute logo and losses? A brave Napster is willing to keep pounding away at the unprofitable online music market. Er, unless someone wants to buy the company.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Napster, the remade version of the popular Internet music sharing service, is in talks over a sale or possible strategic partnership, the company said Monday. The announcement comes as a steady stream of new competitors enter the market, includingÂ SanDisk with partner RealNetworks, andÂ Microsoft with its Zune MarketplaceÂ strategy. It also comes amid a sharp downturn in user figures for Napster, which has seen its user base erode to 512,000 users at the end of June, from 606,000 at the end of March. Napster said it has hired UBS Investment Bank to assist management in the "evaluation of strategic alternatives," in response to interest from a third party in potentially acquiring or establishing a venture with the company. Napster also said it remains in a strong position to continue building its own business, with or without such a deal, highlighting its cash position of $97 million. The announcement sent Napster's Nasdaq-listed stock up 12.4 percent in after-market trading, to $3.99. The company set no timetable for finalizing the evaluation, and said the talks may not result in any deals. Formed in 1999, Napster popularized peer-to-peer music sharing on the Internet, gaining notoriety when a recording industry lawsuit ultimately shut it down and set the precedent for further legal victories over similar online services. A few years after the legal defeat, RoxioÂ bought the rights to its name, and in late 2003Â re-launched itÂ as a legal music download store. Napster faced stiff competition from the moment of its rebirth, mainly from Apple ComputerÂ and its popular iPods, and the iTunes Music Store. Napster currently offers a free 512MB digital music player, or a 1GB one for $50 to users who sign up for its monthly service for three months. It also started an advertising-supported music service in May that allows users to listen more than two million songs at no charge, up to five times each. The company reported a net loss of $9.8 millionÂ in the three months ending June 30, on revenue of $28.1 million.
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The Napster To Go portable digital music subscription service, which was previewed in September, works via a plug-in to Windows Media Player 10.
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Napster, the subscription music-download service, is looking for a buyer. The company -- which got its start as a free music-download, file-sharing site -- said Sept. 18 that it has hired UBS Investment Bank to find a major strategic partner or to be acquired completely.
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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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Napster creator Shawn Fanning is back with a new, legal file-sharing service called Snocap. The P2P service reportedly is close to signing a licensing deal with Universal Recording Group.
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p2pnet.net News Feature:- Reports on Napster creator Shawn Fanningâs newest p2p application, Snocap, are doing the rounds. Snocap is a, âa proprietary Content Identification Service (CIS) that uses audio
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Napster dives headfirst into the unshackled MP3 market.
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Boston&#39; Northeastern University dropout Shawn Fanning, who tapped out the code to Napster in 1999, is back in the music downloading game.
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The popular site is aiming to beat Amazon online with a selection of unrestricted MP3 downloads.
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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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Napster Inc.  said on  Monday it was considering selling the company or other possible  ventures with outsiders looking to hook up with the  once-notorious online music service.