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Irresistible Forces: The Business Legacy of Napster and the Growth of the Underground Internet
This book is about - but not only about - Napster The story of Napster is important in its own right, but its legacy even more so. The phenomenon that surrounds Napster has highlighted the extraordinary potential for the mass mobilisation of consumer and community power. This irresistible force - the underground Internet - has blown apart conventional models of doing business. Merriden charts the birth of Napster and its genesis in Internet music communities. He describes in detail how big businesses felt complacent enough to ignore Napster, only to turn on it when the truth about their business models dawned. As the big companies got nasty, Bertelsmann and Thomas Middelhof broke ranks and did a deal with Napster. The rapid spread in Napster's popularity has made many businesses sit up and notice. And it wasn't just because of the court room battles highlighted by the media every day. Some estimates put the peak number of Napster users at around 58 million. Hard to ignore the cries of the masses. Through the aftermath of those bloody court rooms, Napster has left a lasting impact on the future of e-business. This legacy affects more than music and record companies. In irresistible forces, Trevor Merriden shows how all businesses who have an interest in the Internet should pay attention. The influence on business of file sharing and peer-to-peer technology will be profound in the years ahead..
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All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster
At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It did not take long for the music industry to declare war, one that has now engulfed the biggest entertainment and technology companies on the planet. For All the Rave, top cyberculture journalist Joseph Menn gained unprecedented access to Fanning, other key Napster and music executives, reams of internal e-mails, unpublished court records, and other resources. The result is the definitive account of the Napster saga, for the first time revealing secret take-over and settlement talks, the unseen role of Shawn’s uncle in controlling Napster, and hidden agendas and infighting from Napster’s trenches to the top ranks of the German media giant Bertelsmann. All the Rave is a riveting account of genius and greed, visionary leaps and disastrous business decisions, and the clash of the hacker and investor cultures with that of the copyright establishment. Napster left a generation of music fans feeling that paying the recording industry close to twenty dollars for a CD was a foolish and unnecessary extravagance, which provoked a still-growing backlash against digital media consumers that might leave them with less control than ever. Here is the inside story of the young visionary and the company that made it happen..
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Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music
Digital compression technologies such as MP3 and Napster are having an explosive impact on the way music is distributed Every day, hundreds of thousands of music files are searched for, shared, recorded, and listened to by computer and Web users-all free of charge. It's a boon for consumers and a disaster for record companies, and the end result can be nothing less than a cultural and economic transformation. Sonic Boom is a fascinating narrative of the controversy that's sending shock waves through the music industry. It's the story of musicians such as the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, who are reaching fans without record company support; entrepreneurs who are distributing MP3 files without licensing agreements; and record-industry executives who are fighting for their business at every turn. It reveals how, even as the star-maker machinery of record companies remains in the hands of the old guard, innovators are finding ways to outsmart it. Peopled with a sensational cast of characters that includes rock stars, music moguls, teenagers, and Internet entrepreneurs, Sonic Boom exposes the recording industry's plight as a fascinating microcosm of the vast cultural, ethical, and legal issues that all industries face in the information age. .
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The Ethics Of Management
Hosmer's fourth edition of The Ethics of Management provides business students (future managers) with a very specific analytical process for understanding and resolving moral problems in management. A manager needs insight and understanding in a global economy to convince everyone involved, given his or her varied religious, cultural, economic and social backgrounds, to accept a proposed moral solution. Acceptance of managerial moral solutions, over time, brings trust, commitment and effort, and those three, also over time, are essential for organizational success. .
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Napster and After: Where the Online Music Industry Is Headed (Knowledge@Wharton)
From the birth of Napster to the demise of the INDUCE Act–the controversial copyright law which the U.S. Congress has chosen to ignore–the explosion of digital music files over the Internet has been praised or condemned with few reservations on either side. Is digital file sharing a terrific way to enhance consumers’ ability to discover new music? Or is it computer age piracy, imperiling the very notion of intellectual property rights? Now, with the advent of such innovations as Grouper, podcasting, and the Dual Disk format, there are new solutions to the copyright issue. But will they be enough to quell the controversy? Napster and After: Where the Online Music Industry Is Headed answers these questions, as well as a host of other questions that are swirling around the future of the online music industry. .
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Dollars 4 downloads: the post-Napster era of paying for digital music has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait? (circuits).(digital music becoming increasing ... An article from: New York Times Upfront
This digital document is an article from New York Times Upfront, published by Scholastic, Inc. on January 21, 2002. The length of the article is 1091 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Dollars 4 downloads: the post-Napster era of paying for digital music has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait? (circuits).(digital music becoming increasing available online)(Brief Article) Author: Matt Richtel Publication:New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 21, 2002 Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Volume: 134 Issue: 8 Page: 24(2) Article Type: Brief Article Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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GLOBAL NAPSTER USAGE PLUMMETS, BUT NEW FILE-SHARING ALTERNATIVES GAINING GROUND, REPORTS JUPITER MEDIA METRIX.(Industry Trend or Event): An article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on July 23, 2001. The length of the article is 410 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: GLOBAL NAPSTER USAGE PLUMMETS, BUT NEW FILE-SHARING ALTERNATIVES GAINING GROUND, REPORTS JUPITER MEDIA METRIX.(Industry Trend or Event) Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal) Date: July 23, 2001 Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc. Volume: 42 Issue: 28 Page: 1 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Meet the Napster : TIME Magazine Cover Story
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