The RIAA vs Napster

Analysis
Napster will live or die by 'fair use' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13720.html)

A Settlement?
Bertelsmann eyeing up Liquid Audio? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/14703.html)
BMG attempting to merge with EMI (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14639.html)
Top Bertelsmann brass resign (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14501.html)
BMG alliance may hinder Napster cloners (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14438.html)
BMG, Napster deal damned by Universal (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14417.html)
Napster makes sweet music with Bertelsmann (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14367.html)

The case comes to the Appeal Court - again

No verdict in Napster trial - yet (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13688.html)

Pre re-trial tussles

Napster brief slams RIAA tactics (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13243.html)
US Patent Office dismisses key Napster defence (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13147.html)
US appeal court sets date for Napster trial (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12909.html)
Napster goes on offensive (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12711.html)

Napster goes to appeal

Appeals court orders Napster stay of execution (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12259.html)

Napster comes to court

Napster to close Friday (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12195.html)
RIAA dubs Napster defence 'patently baseless' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/11937.html)
Napster details copyright case defence (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11750.html)
Napster tries to talk its way out of RIAA suit (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11548.html)
DoJ's top gun from MS trial joins Napster defence (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11429.html)
New surveys cited in Napster injunction request (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11395.html)
Napster use survey takes heat off college students (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11301.html)
Napster loses preliminary hearing (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10729.html)

Napster's effect on the music biz

MP3 to kill the CD by 2005 - MORI (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14903.html)
Downloaded music sales to hit £300m in UK by 2005 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14494.html)
Napster nukes CD sales (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14363.html)
Napster enabled 1.4bn song swaps in September (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13699.html)
Napster-style sites to cost music biz $3.1bn by 2005 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13381.html)
Napster has huge number of users - shock! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13789.html)
Napster usage stats support RIAA claims (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12332.html)
Napster use survey takes heat off college students (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11301.html)

Sony and Napster

Sony backtracks from anti-Napster spiel (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12875.html)
We will block Napster at source - Sony exec (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12780.html)

Metallica et al vs Napster

Napster told to say 'Sorry, Metallica' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14533.html)
Colleges defy Napster ban demand (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13482.html)
Metallica lawyer tells colleges to block Napster (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/13143.html)
Napster fan hacks 50 more sites (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13100.html)
Pro-Napster hacker claims 60 site scalps (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/12658.html)
Napster exiles 230,000 more alleged music pirates (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11131.html)
Napster Metallica ban proving hard to enforce (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10813.html)
Irate fans prep Metallica specific Napster clone (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10800.html)
Napster bans most alleged Metallica pirates (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10770.html)
Napster may ban Metallica's 'pirates' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10653.html)
Metallica to shame - but not name - Napster 'pirates' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10613.html)
Chuck D benefits Napster with on-line rap contest (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10594.html)

Napster and other bands

Spice Girls tune in to Napster (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14249.html)
Smashing Pumpkins' MP3 tells label to fornicate off (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13216.html)
Radiohead new album pops up on Napster (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13203.html)
Spinal Tap to fill Napster void (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12210.html)
Madonna single leaked via Napster (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11162.html)

Napster vs The Offspring

Offspring agrees to can Napster album giveaway (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13526.html)
Napster to sue bastard Offspring (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11199.html)

Legislative Manoeuvres

Senator Hatch's Napster Epiphany (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14179.html)
Bush & Gore on Napster: compromise but pay up? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14072.html)
White House sticks its nose in Napster appeal (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13133.html)

Napster's business

VC pumps $15m into Napster (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10983.html)