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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Gnutella
Revenge of the file-sharing masses!
By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.
The music revolution will not be digitized
The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.
Who is spying on your downloads?
The recording industry would love to keep tabs on every Napster trader or Gnutella user, but even the sneakiest software won't stop music piracy.
The next Napster?
A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
Napster: Hanging by a thread
A federal appeals court rules against the file-trading service on nearly every point of law, but holds off enforcing the injunction against it -- for now.
Victory or defeat?
Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in.
The Napster parasites
Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download.
Free Photoshop for the people
Berkeley's Experimental Computing Club has produced some of the Net's most cherished software.
Whoring for downloads
Desperate for attention, aspiring musicians will stop at nothing to get fans to listen to their online tunes.
Triumph of the free-software will
The passion of open-source hackers may make their success inevitable. Impugn it at your peril. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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