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News.com Can Napster be stopped? No!
"The obvious question is, Can anything be done to stop the free trade of music on the Internet? To the amazement of many, the answer is likely to be no.

The first reason for this is that the cat is out of the bag. Every multimedia PC in existence is capable of converting a music CD to a digital MP3 file. This means that more than 100 million encoding devices already exist that can convert the more than 50 billion CDs floating around the world into digital files. It's unlikely that we will recall either the PCs or the CDs. Could we produce new CDs that are "un-rippable"? This is unlikely if you want them to work in the more than 200 million CD players that already are on the market."

Wired Napster Takes a Nap
"Napster addicts in need of a music fix were stifled Monday by the unavailability of the company�s servers.

Starting around 7 a.m. PDT Monday, servers and home pages for Napster, a popular service that allows Internet users to exchange MP3 music files, have been unavailable and disconnecting users."

"The vulnerability of Napster�s servers points to an advantage that distributed software like Gnutella may have in the long run -� no single IP destination controls the operation of the file-sharing."

Wide Open News Pro-Napster Hackers Hit Metallica
"Hell hath no fury like a Napster fan spurned, it seems. Hot on the heels of Metallica's major legal action against the developer of the MP3 track finder, the band's Web site was hacked over the weekend.

A Napster buff sneaked onto the the rockers' server and replaced the site's minimalist www.metallica.com homepage with the equally minimalist 'LEAVE NAPSTER ALONE'. "

The Christian Science Monitor Napster � the music distribution system of the future
"llicit or not, the changes wrought by Napster may be more difficult to undo. An entire generation of music-listeners has learned that there's a better way to get the music they want - and even if government manages to stomp it out, the memory will remain."

"Freedom of information does not necessarily have to mean the end of compensation for the companies that produce and market music - or the artists who initially wrote and performed the songs."

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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."

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