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Napster got another lease on life today when a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s order last week that ordered the Redwood City company to remain offline until it fully complied with an injunction to remove all copyright music. On July 11, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued an order mandating that Napster, which had a week earlier voluntarily stopped all file-sharing activity, remain shut down until it could demonstrate 100 percent accuracy of its file-filtering software. The company at the time was prepared to resume its operations, telling the court it… Read more »

As their debut album, Sinner, screams up the Billboard albums chart and its first single, “Bodies,” continues on a path toward becoming hard rock’s summer anthem, Drowning Pool seem to have a lock on the title of Ozzfest’s breakout band. Such high expectations, however, haven’t made the Dallas quartet forget what landed it a slot on the tour in the first place. “It’s crazy. It’s hard from my perspective to explain [the position we’re in] because I’m in it,” singer Dave Williams said. “We’re just four jackasses from Texas who love to play music. We love doing what we do… Read more »

Public Enemy will take the next step into the digital music age by posting re-recorded versions of songs, such as “Public Enemy #1,” “Arizona” and “Shut ‘Em Down” on rapper Chuck D.’s new Web site/record label SlamJamz.com and asking fans to write new music for the tracks. A longtime, outspoken proponent of online platforms and technology such as Napster and MP3s, Chuck D. says the technology developed in recent years has made it possible for artists to work in new ways. “I think we’re living in interactive times, and technology has made it more accessible to create more creators,” he… Read more »

Embattled song-swap service Napster Inc., facing a judge’s order which could put it permanently out of business, announced Thursday it had settled copyright infringement lawsuits brought by hard rockers Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre. “I think we’ve resolved this in a way that works for fans, recording artists and songwriters alike,” Metallica co-founder Lars Ulrich said in a statement announcing the deal. “Our beef hasn’t been with the concept of sharing music,” Ulrich said. “The problem we had with Napster was that they never asked us or other artists if we wanted to participate in their business.” Under the… Read more »

Napster plans to appeal a crushing decision handed down by a federal judge that the company remain off-line until it can perfect its song-swapping system. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall shot down the notion that Napster could quietly come back online without 100 percent effectiveness in its song-screening technology after an injunction that it remove all copyright music. Napster told Patel in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that it could promise more than 99 percent effectiveness. But Patel demanded 100 percent compliance to keep infringing music out of the hands of music fans used to trading the songs for free. That… Read more »

Napster’s still down, and there’s no telling when it’ll be back up again. As the file-sharing service headed for the fifth day of its longest service outage ever on Thursday (July 5), the company couldn’t say when users would be able to start swapping songs again. Since early Monday morning, Napster has blocked all file transfers, blaming problems in assembling the database needed for its new filters, which use acoustic fingerprinting technology. The new filters should allow Napster to block files based on musical content instead of simply relying on user-provided filenames. “Napster’s goal is to start file transfers again… Read more »

Embattled Internet service Napster began shutting users out of its song-swap service this weekend unless they downloaded the latest version of its software using audio fingerprinting technology, a spokesman for the company saidon Monday. “All previous versions of Napster have been disabled. We’re making this change as part of our ongoing effort to comply with the court’s orders,” a message posted Friday on its Web Site at (http://www.napster.com) said. A spokesman for the Redwood City, California-based company said the latest version, dubbed 10.3, is a further implementation of its software using fingerprint technology to filter music. The company has seen… Read more »

Napster has become so effective in blocking the trade of copyrighted material that the sharing of songs on the service has virtually ground to a halt, research firm Webnoize said on Wednesday. Webnoize said users of Napster’s latest software, which incorporates file identification technology, had an average of 1.5 song files to share at any given time as of Wednesday, down from a peak of 220 songs in February. The newest version of the once-phenomenally popular song-swap software includes audio fingerprinting technology, developed by Relatable, which helps Napster filter out copyrighted songs in order to comply with a court injunction.… Read more »

Loudeye Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of services and infrastructure for the authorized delivery of digital content, today announced it has acquired privately owned Addition Systems, Inc. (ASI), a leading developer of advanced server-side streaming ad and content insertion solutions. Terms were not disclosed. Addition Systems’ proprietary technology is designed to allow Internet broadcasters to dynamically insert targeted advertising and personalized content into streaming media programming without annoying delays and rebuffering. Sophisticated targeting algorithms, including geographic and demographic targeting, can be used to provide broadcasters the means to collect revenues from high-CPM advertising and private-label brand syndication. For terrestrial rebroadcasters,… Read more »

File-sharing service Napster has inked an exclusive pact to license the digital music technology of MusicNet, a nascent online distribution company backed by three of the five major record labels. However, the MusicNet founders – particularly Warner Music and EMI – stressed that none of their songs will come anywhere near Napster’s service until the file-swapper’s network includes iron-clad protection for their copyrights. Under the terms of the deal, users of the secure, next-generation Napster service will have access, for an additional fee, to the MusicNet platform, and will be able to trade files with other Napsterites who have signed… Read more »