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Article: Napster legacy dampens recording industry clout.(Features)(Ideas)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 16, 2001
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Byline: Tom Regan
The recent news that the recording industry is going for the coup de grace on Napster should come as no surprise. For all the industry's talk about eventually embracing the Napster peer-to-peer model, its desire to finish off Napster has been as apparent as its lack of ideas for how to deal with this threat to its empire.
But there is an another drama playing out behind the anti-Napster moves. Despite the recording industry's apparent victories, it has already lost the war.
Shaun Fanning's invention of Napster has forever changed the ground rules for artists, the recording industry, and the music audience. In the end, ...