Napster Clawing Back · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 25, 2001 @08:48AM from the long-odds-short-memories dept.

D Anderson n'Swaart writes: "As the BBC reports in this article, Napster is set to return shortly, as a subscription-based sharing service, a concept facing a less-than-rosy future. The report gives a brief history of Napster, and the current state of the various lawsuits that were brought against it. The briefs: Napster is going to have to fork over a total of around $36M USD, $10M of which is downpayment on future royalties." And whatAnotherAolUser writes that the company "agreed to pay $26 million to settle a copyright lawsuit with songwriters and music publishers, and to make royalty payments to the writers and publishers once it started a fee-based service." Guess it depends where you start counting.

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Re:so... by AssFace · 2001-09-25 09:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ha h haa haa - yeah, good one.

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Re:It's not dead. by BlackHat · 2001-09-25 09:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Paying for the free whores!