KaZaa and Napster are familiar names. Both were prohibited by adjudication from allowing file sharing. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing usenet.com, decrying it as the next Napster, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer, illicit file-sharing sites. Napster's desktop client migjht have a solution, In an effort to rope in more customers, the music subscription service has announced that it's ditching its client download and moving to a web-based platform.
There are so many places to listen to music on the Internet these days (easily linked to hand held devices). Rather than ponying up millions of dollars in advance to offer Sony/BMG's music videos on its MySpace site, News Corp. has struck a deal with the major label that will allow it to embed music videos and select audio on the artist pages of Sony/BMG artists in exchange for an undisclosed percentage of the ad revenue generated by that content. Everyone wants a piece of the action and the ones who get the least out of it all are the artists who made the music in the first place. Ah technology and progress, right? Without the artists there would be none of this. Which is the host and which is the parasite?
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