Business Defunct file-sharing network Qtrax to relaunch as music service Updated Apr 1, 2025 LOS ANGELES — The firm behind the defunct Qtrax online file-swapping network has inked a licensing deal with Britain-based EMI Music and aims …
Business Business Highlights Updated Apr 1, 2025 BearShare operators to pay $30 million to avoid piracy claims
Columnists The new Napster is irrelevant By Margot Leong Daily Journal staff Dec 10, 2004 With free downloads, recording industry is losing Napster, the original person-to-person file sharing program that started the whole music-sha…
Local News Napster judge powerless to stop infringement Updated Apr 1, 2025 A federal judge overseeing the case against Napster Inc. essentially threw up her hands and appealed for help Friday. For the moment, her memo…
Local News Napster licenses new technology Updated Apr 1, 2025 In an effort to combat piracy, the online music service Napster will use new technology that identifies songs by mapping their sound patterns.
Local News Recording industry to sendNapster 135,000 song names Updated Apr 1, 2025 The recording industry said Friday it planned to send a list of 135,000 copyright songs to Napster Inc. later in the day, giving the file-swap…
Local News Napster fights for corporate life in copyright hearing Updated Apr 1, 2025 Napster Inc. made a plea Friday to keep its music-swapping service alive, telling a judge it would stem the trade of up to 1 million pirated m…
Local News Napster architecture spawns Internet revolution Updated Apr 1, 2025 In its essence, the Internet is a file-swapping network, a vast, ever-changing collection of individual computers whose users mainly seek info…