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Salon Artists to Napster: Drop dead!
" Ask singer-songwriter Aimee Mann what she thinks of Napster, the ingeniously simple and wildly popular tool for exchanging MP3 music files, and you get a very concise response: "Artists should get paid for their work." It's a time-honored notion, but one that seems to be getting lost amid the Napster buzz."

The Guardian Online Music industry is caught napping
" Shawn Fanning may look like a typical 19 year old American science student in a T-shirt and a university of Michigan baseball hat, and until last summer - when he unleashed his first ever attempt at writing computer code - he was. But in a few months, he has gone from being the kind of customer the music business cherishes to the creator of its latest headache.

The program Fanning wrote as a class software project, Napster, lets users turn their computers into servers for the purpose of swapping MP3 music files."

"Fanning, a musician himself, claims he envisioned the service would benefit indie bands making their MP3s available for download without going through intermediaries like MP3.com. Though Napster does not itself store or sell music, like MP3.com it is a means of distribution that isn't controlled by the record industry and gives control to consumers."

Salon The Napster Files
"The lesson of the Napster saga is that, once again, the powerful populist dynamics of the Internet's many-to-many architecture may surprise the moguls. Fast broadband connections mean that AOL Time Warner can pump its content at you and me; they also mean that you and I can share content with each other. Maybe doing so won't require an advanced engineering degree. Napster suggests it can be done pretty easily."

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