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The Napster Controversy

The RIAA, Metallica, Napster and Net music fans duke it out

By Tony Smith

Posted in Register Full Coverage, 16th August 2000 10:53 GMT

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The RIAA vs Napster

Analysis
Napster will live or die by 'fair use' [1]

A Settlement?
Bertelsmann eyeing up Liquid Audio? [2]
BMG attempting to merge with EMI [3]
Top Bertelsmann brass resign [4]
BMG alliance may hinder Napster cloners [5]
BMG, Napster deal damned by Universal [6]
Napster makes sweet music with Bertelsmann [7]

The case comes to the Appeal Court - again

No verdict in Napster trial - yet [8]

Pre re-trial tussles

Napster brief slams RIAA tactics [9]
US Patent Office dismisses key Napster defence [10]
US appeal court sets date for Napster trial [11]
Napster goes on offensive [12]

Napster goes to appeal

Appeals court orders Napster stay of execution [13]

Napster comes to court

Napster to close Friday [14]
RIAA dubs Napster defence 'patently baseless' [15]
Napster details copyright case defence [16]
Napster tries to talk its way out of RIAA suit [17]
DoJ's top gun from MS trial joins Napster defence [18]
New surveys cited in Napster injunction request [19]
Napster use survey takes heat off college students [20]
Napster loses preliminary hearing [21]

Napster's effect on the music biz

MP3 to kill the CD by 2005 - MORI [22]
Downloaded music sales to hit £300m in UK by 2005 [23]
Napster nukes CD sales [24]
Napster enabled 1.4bn song swaps in September [25]
Napster-style sites to cost music biz $3.1bn by 2005 [26]
Napster has huge number of users - shock! [27]
Napster usage stats support RIAA claims [28]
Napster use survey takes heat off college students [29]

Sony and Napster

Sony backtracks from anti-Napster spiel [30]
We will block Napster at source - Sony exec [31]

Metallica et al vs Napster

Napster told to say 'Sorry, Metallica' [32]
Colleges defy Napster ban demand [33]
Metallica lawyer tells colleges to block Napster [34]
Napster fan hacks 50 more sites [35]
Pro-Napster hacker claims 60 site scalps [36]
Napster exiles 230,000 more alleged music pirates [37]
Napster Metallica ban proving hard to enforce [38]
Irate fans prep Metallica specific Napster clone [39]
Napster bans most alleged Metallica pirates [40]
Napster may ban Metallica's 'pirates' [41]
Metallica to shame - but not name - Napster 'pirates' [42]
Chuck D benefits Napster with on-line rap contest [43]

Napster and other bands

Spice Girls tune in to Napster [44]
Smashing Pumpkins' MP3 tells label to fornicate off [45]
Radiohead new album pops up on Napster [46]
Spinal Tap to fill Napster void [47]
Madonna single leaked via Napster [48]

Napster vs The Offspring

Offspring agrees to can Napster album giveaway [49]
Napster to sue bastard Offspring [50]

Legislative Manoeuvres

Senator Hatch's Napster Epiphany [51]
Bush & Gore on Napster: compromise but pay up? [52]
White House sticks its nose in Napster appeal [53]

Napster's business

VC pumps $15m into Napster [54]