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1. Napster -- Services
   This article discusses the futility of the proposed filtering system that Napster was trying to implement. Robert Schwartz, a well versed lawyer in media copyright cases made the point that "what the well-intentioned mind can invent, the not-well-intentioned mind can destroy." In essence, even if Napster were to stop all illegal file sharing, new services would become available. There were already many alternatives to Napster: Newtella, BearShare, Gnocleus, LimeWire, Napigator, and Gnutella.
2. File Sharing -- Napster Client
   A file sharing client could do everything that a media player does above (indeed, often a media player is built into file sharing clients). In addition, verified licenses should be included in search results. Again, a (cc) icon, or perhaps a green light (sharing ok), might be displayed next to search results. Note that in search results all metadata (including everything from filename to license information) comes from other clients. After downloading a file, the local client should verify a license claim for itself before displaying a positive indicator in a "media library" view or exporting license metadata in respose to external searches. Again, any single file need only be verified once.
3. Trial -- United States
   -- Consumers who log on to Napster.com in December will get a free three-day trial of Napster's popular premium subscription service. The free trial gives music lovers three days of unlimited listening to the largest music catalog available online, access to 40 on-demand radio stations and all the community and music discovery features Napster has to offer -- at no cost. As an added holiday bonus, consumers who subscribe to the premium service after their free trial ends will receive an added gift of 5 free tracks that can be burned to CD or transferred to the Samsung-Napster Player, or more than 40 other portable music devices. -- Holiday shoppers can add RadioShack, one of the nation's top consumer electronics retailers, with stores in nearly every neighborhood in America, to the list of retailers featuring the pre-paid Napster Music Card, which already includes RiteAid, Best Buy, CompUSA, Kroger, Safeway, ExxonMobil, Duane Reade, Diamond Shamrock and Speedway/SuperAmerica. The Napster Card, developed in partnership with InComm, offers 15 downloads for $14.85, allowing music fans -- for the first time -- to easily stuff stockings with Napster's digital music, without the need for a credit card. Retailer commitments will total nearly 20,000 locations by year's end.
4. Penn State -- Students
   In the years that followed, Penn State grew significantly, becoming the state's largest grantor of baccalaureate degrees and reaching an enrollment of 5,000 in 1936. Around that time, a system of commonwealth campuses was started by President Ralph Hetzel to provide an alternative for Depression-era students who were economically unable to leave home to attend college.
5. File Sharing -- Users
   File sharing became popular with the birth of Napster. At it’s peak, Napster claimed nearly 60 million visitors per month. Napster users were able to share music with other users, ignoring copyright law. As the pioneer of peer to peer file sharing, Napster allowed individuals to share music stored on their hard drives directly with other Napster users. Users installed Napster software, making this sharing possible. Each user’s computer became a mini-server.
6. Gnutella -- Popular Gnutella
   Gnutella developers aren't waiting around for Qtraxmax to start behaving well. On Gnutella discussion sites, programmers are discussing a number of technical proposals that would make access to the network contingent on good behavior: If you write code that hurts Gnutella, in other words, you don't get to play. One idea would allow only "clients that you can authenticate" to speak on the network, Fisk says. This would include the five-or-so most popular Gnutella applications, including "Limewire, BearShare, Toadnode, Xolox, Gtk-Gnutella, and Gnucleus." If new clients want to join the group, they would need to abide by a certain communication specification.
7. German Music -- East Germany
   In the 1960s, Germany was virtually missing from the map of rock music, but the late blooming of psychedelic music changed the German scene in a dramatic way. The boom of German rock relied on a number of enabling factors. There was a political background: Germany was one of the three countries (France and Italy being the other ones) that experienced the 1968 student riots on a massive scale. That phenomenon created a new class of (very young) intellectuals, and inspired a movement towards collective awareness. Environmental, pacifist and anti-nuclear issues became more relevant and openly discussed. It ... led to the actions of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, which embodied the anger of that generation.
8. Music Store
   The founder of the Music Store, Larry Clark, has been in the home audio business since 1968. He usually jogs, bicycles or exercises on his Nordic Track every day. He loves to kayak and paddles on the local waterways as much as he can. He likes to travel cross-country by car or train and ... loves to travel abroad. His wife recently made a remark to one of Larry’s friends explaining how important music was to him. She said that music was like air to Larry. If he couldn’t listen to it he would die.
9. Artists -- Music
   Under terms of the venture, USA Network will then sign the mutually agreed-upon performing artists, integrating them into the network for an incubation period. Music industry innovator Spencer Proffer of Meteor 17 will oversee the development and promotion of the artists along with USA Network and Yahoo! Music. USA will utilize the artists' recordings for marketing and programming on the network and will benefit from a flexible source of new music for use on all platforms. Yahoo! Music will employ artists' music for further exposure.
10. T -- Companies
    The first "T" stands for Tawa Supermarket Inc., a California based Asian supermarket chain of 21 stores. The second "T" represents Uni-President Enterprises Corp., a public company and one of the top 10 conglomerates in Taiwan. The Chinese name of Uni-President is pronounced "Tung Yee". Both Tawa and Uni-President are major shareholders of T & T Supermarket Inc. and they are joined by a number of Canadian investors.

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