Napster may be dead but is file-sharing alive and well?

Someone else plans to do downloads for cash http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4559936.htm,
One of the pack or ahead of the pac?, via www.wirednews.com

Is MS about to give in? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28231.html
From the www.theregister.com a throughly good read.

Another idea from Mr Ideas;
Business 2.0 - Web Article - Peer-to-Peer Technology Goes Legit http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,45509,FF.html

Mercury News 11-25-2002 Judge to decide if file-swapping copyright suit can proceed Kazaa
The Register Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills KaZaA and eDonkey

From those nice people at /. all you ever wanted to know about the UMG service
Remember to also read the slashdot thread

Armed forces under attack Mercury News 11-27-2002

P2P, Napster like applications just won't die As always cast your eye over the slashdot thread

Network sharing is university dilemma The Seattle Times Business & Technology

Fee-based online music services sing the blues Mercury News 12-02-2002

Federal judge asked to skip a trial and find the companies behind these networks guilty of contributing to widespread copyright infringement. Mercury News 12-02-2002

Whilst looking for other things I found these SF based sites somafm and shoutcast.
At this moment in time I have no use for them (dialup net access) but others may.

There was a great Doonesbury strip recently in which a DJ is interviewing 70s rocker Jimmy Thudpucker, who is enjoying a resurgence of popularity. Jimmy reports that he is currently the most downloaded musician on the net, with 65 million music files shared this month alone. The DJ asks if he is enjoying his new fame and Thudpucker replies no, he's too busy waiting tables at Red Lobster.

So true.

Another player, will this work? listen

Being at uni, most people I know have access to stuff off Kazaa at ridiculous speeds. We can download a whole album in under a minute. Does that mean people buy fewer CDs? Well most people I know have ended up buying more, as they've ended up hearing more stuff they like. I don't think I know anyone who considers a copied CDR as a substitute.

Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution. From the OpenP2P world outlining where they think things stand at this moment in time. Only 2 pages.

Some may find this worth a look LIVE PHISH DOWNLOADS.
The full /. musings can be found at Slashdot
Anyone going to give this a try?

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Originally posted by Roy T:
Some may find this worth a look http://www.livephish.com/.
The full /. musings can be found at http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/21/152204.shtml?tid=141
Anyone going to give this a try?

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A little off topic, but GDLive have many Phish downloads, including quite a few in Shorten format, for download, for free. I'm interested to know how that will fit in livephish's business model.

Power to them though. I'd like to get excellent quality recordings of their Halloween shows (they've done covers of The White Album, Remain In Light and Quadraphenia in successive Halloweens), plus that famous night in Arizona when they did all of Dark Side Of The Moon.

Cheers

Keith.

[This message was edited by Keith Mattox on SUNDAY 22 December 2002 at 01:11.]

Kazaa looks a tough beast to kill Mercury News 12-29-2002

Music Biz: Compromise Is Key

". . As digital file sharing, webcasting and other new technologies proliferate, artists and industry officials meeting here said the music business is in jeopardy unless artists, record companies and consumers stop fighting and start compromising. . ." Wired News

Put the Compact Disc Out of Its Misery

The new CDs: Neither compact nor disks.

Intresting ideas - warning found this on MSN slate

Illegal music sites 'here to stay'

The may well be right BBC NEWS Entertainment