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2002 MP3 Winners and Losers

Posted by michael on from the loosely-defined dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net is running their annual losers and winners list in digital media. Each has 8 finalists with the big winner KaZaa for becoming profitable and doubling Napster's peak traffic despite setbacks like getting briefly booted from Download.com. The big loser? No surprise, it's the RIAA who despite several wins in court have failed in their quest to stem file trading. Lawrence Lessig and Dmitry Skylarov also made the winners list, though as the article points out it wasn't exactly a great year for Dmitry."

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  1. Re:+1 Interesting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is an old song and dance. This is ekrout's(/Stewey Griffin's/whoever else's) new account. He uses some karma whoring accounts to mod his trolls up. Compare the posting histories between the three, they're pretty much the same.

  2. Re:Aren't they a little bit... (Kazaa can be...) by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 3, Informative
    Latest Kazaa news: Kazaa can be sued.

    --naked

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  3. SkLYarov, not Skylarov! by infolib · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both the linked article and the /. story has it wrong.

    If you doubt me compare this with this.

    I just think the error shouldn't be allowed to propagate.
    Besides, I woke up this morning and found out I had mutated into a spelling nazi. I just hate it when that happens...

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  4. Edonkey by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't understand why there is no single word about Edonkey in articles. Kazaa doesn't work in Linux (at least without Wine) and AFAIK lack few features of Edonkey network.
    Why Edonkey community is ignored in such comparisions? Is it really so small?

  5. Re:"file trading" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bzzt, try again.

    A car is tangible property that cost significant money to manufacture and ship. A perfect digital copy of a song costs the copyright owner no money except a potential lost sale.

  6. There is software for mult. computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check Versiontracker for software to take files off of an ipod. And click the preferences in itunes so it won't overwrite the ipod. It's not that hard...