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According to Napster's press release, "Napster To Go marks the most significant milestone to date in the rapidly-growing digital music industry and makes costly download-only stores seem antiquated by comparison." The release will be accompanied by a major $30 million marketing campaign supported by strategic alliances with "leading" consumer electronics manufacturers Creative, Dell and iriver.
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[I]n order to build a legal Napster 2.0 that even comes close to matching what the "classic" version provides, Napster will need to strike deals with the rest of the music industry. Its questionable whether that will happen, because theres so much bad blood to overcome between the two camps, said Ric Dube, an analyst at Webnoize.
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Morpheus is looking like the heir apparent for the now-unusable Napster. Being decentralized, perhaps Morpheus is more resistant to RIAA lawsuits than Napster. Perhaps not. In any case, the music industry should realize that -- online and offline -- there are legit uses of copyright material that don't require a payment.
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In this article, you will learn what the original Napster was, what it did and how it worked. You will ... learn why there is so much concern, particularly in the music industry, about the issues of copyright and intellectual property.
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