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BUSINESS MERCED SUS-STAR Vrithuj July 2H 2(XX) Napster: Teclmology destined to change music distribution Most Active Most Advanced NaMCo9 1 171749100 vmiun rit4 Music fans flock to Napster alternatives CaeuiDAM Gmttwd h4C(l HgfflfMM ImnGio ItaHCI Cowgirl DmCng CdtaGo XTiMM BMM ff( (401-4 19162 44 14 4 9 64 11444 84 U7M6C0 ISiiOKI lAwm Inmmm iMlCl ilMtttlfck Cr4l xnzsc Most Advanced Most Active tUP (09 (13 Ml 131 719 711 799 7f1 744 74 Crossroads CWtt Nowg AX4M tatOtOM AaPiwCta Stmriq HtrmHtjH tcQilaca AnertnViCS -5 ll It -sms -14 i ns wt -11 -4 ttlt -7 IM6 1 14 -5 14 ttf'SComi J05u Nkiosl Cup I mioSpcti Nni MWI Pnm Atm I Certfi taWNI RnytttaC Nrn tutl Alin CWTItaJ SucrRAK Wditfin Most Active Gmamciga So NIX IK PriiOM OigoniM GaylOidCpK AHCUfp X-dtacomi Owned iMedSottn 9iOMMH04 O-iMfii'idl ONip W3 IW4JM OUrtU't SC-gadO MiieSMttOci BijnsulUO Beiwds 114 17 14 114 74 137 -714 tttf 9MS 111 91171 1434 4 it 491 a 4 IMS lOt 117 1 13tt 47 irtiit TilI NMipiooriiXMiioo sk ta wo WM mwCoi tor) DMfltngra I7710U DJtAOurnnOS 9044U0 ftWICOl 97000 iuei4 too wo mmfihya tat no CaUMiPaptl k'J600 By Ron Harris Associated Press Writer SAN FTCANCISCO With shutdown appearing imminent for Napster Inc's online music bazaar users of the song-swapping service scran Wed to the Interne! Thursday to discuss alternate means for trading bootleg recordings Unlike Napster's clearinghouse model those uliemalivcs enable decentralized file-sharing a tedinokigy no court or law enforcement agency can stop Napster's lawyere said they wuujd seek a slay of a federal judge's ruliiig a day earlier in a lawsuit filed by the recording induMty that would effectively shut down Napster at midnight tonight for infringing on copyrights The recording industry accused Napster of encouraging an unrestrained and illegal online venue Rock bond Mctallica also sued saying more than 30QJCXX) Napster users had traded its songs online Napster responded by blocking access for more than 30000 people but new users continued trading the band's music' The free trade of music over the Internet will not die quickly By noon EDT on Thursday more than 31 AX) people had used a lesser-known Internet service called Scour Exchange to share more than two million songs Scour works like Napster but in addition to audio in the popular MR3 compressed format provides constantly updated directories of video and picture files available fur free trading online Other programs the best known of them Gnutella work on a distributed network system Instead of having central servers maintain a list of available files each computer Is in effect a server fyompagvDI When he cunv up wijh the software program thM crvuhxl Napster in his durm room ut Boston's Northeastern University last year all IWyaraldShawn Panning warned lo do is share some music wkh a fiiend living in Vwpnia I Ic had never written a software upptiealkin before let akme run a business Yet Punning devised a way forcomputeruNentouse the Internet us a channel for copying files sfcwd on Kvneune chc's hiud drive Panning dkh'lwuliwiiai the time but he had engineered a coneepr now known os eompuingThe idea created a seminal company that CMiklgodnwn in Silicon Valley ksv with the likes of llewled-Paekanl IrteL Apple Computer Yaluxi! and Netscape Qimtnuniealkm HWhal Napster showed us is that the piiwcr is main antrjliod servers kept on the Internet The power really is in (he hands of the people" said Clarence Kwan CEO of Lighshare a 7-imxUh-okl Pak Ako start-up inspired by the Napster model "ll made people real ie that the average Joe oul there has some really good eonteitt stared on his own computer hunJ drive" By last September Bales had convinced Panning to move to the San Irandsuo Bay urea to tap into the region's rich vein of verturc coital take long for musie-hungiy college students to fall in kwe with Nipster which became such a popular destination dial some universities hkickod access on their overloaded Imcmet yeucss lines Meanwhile Napster raised about $15 million from individual investors 5 miHkm from Mummer WinNadamujorSan Iraneiseo venture cijiitalisl fum I Jke so many Silicon Valley start-ups Napster has yet to ntrfvC money Napster hasn't gone public either making it difficult to uipruisc the aimpuny's value David Boies iUlomey told The Associated Dess in an interview this week that the company believes is worth somewhere To enforce the injuneikm against musie-sluiring service U5 District Judge Marilyn Mull Patel is million bond to protect Napster agaiast potential losses Even as Napster's fate remains in linixj big liusincsses and entrepreneurs alike are studying ways to cash in on tfx peer-to-peer computing crac Several other decentralized pecr-to-peer networks including Gnutella and Scour have been operating for some time although unclear how they plan to make money Rjer-to-peer computing is on the radar screen of big music movie and publishing complies The e-business consultants at Scient have been tondunled with inquiries from major media and entertainment comptmies looking for advice on how they can make money from file swapping Although file-swapping has concentrated on music so far most experts believe a wide range of copyrighted digital files will be exchanged in peer-to-peercomputing as the pipes are widened legal means was found to shut down Napster" fCo'(o? iccoei tow SMC Comm (SW: 854 TOO 4 I3M6 GuNcWai IGijfj tUO 1 14 41 IT 77WW) 114 AtMUK 1891 WOOO 31 14 longs (ICG) 39 WO 71 1't KewYorhStochEKChangc SatM last Cfeg PJI CXf -I 5093 6396 041516 689 25 U4 600 17316 51748 114 58 5 34 74 919u 9394 903 33 14 1914 1 73079? 31 lit 79 194 40 33 9934 69 14 II 664 95 34 NIXC 34 AVRf A3ALM fO AMT AMtab 76 AMD MmkcH Arod lit Ml 32 555544 4384 40116 10649 371516 139 714 8978 33316 PC 10 11 18 13999 31 17 70 4794 31 94 11 7895 734 I 6195 80 34 479? 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for running fiercely independent newsrooms The Examiner which publishes most of the joint Sunday edition employs 208 full-time editorial workers while the Chronicle employs roughly twice that number As a result the Examiner with less than a fourth of the circulation ofthe 464943 readers pockets more money because it spends less to put out a paper for its 101 AX) readers Estimates drawn from disclosures made during the trial show the sale until Hearst found a buyer for the Examiner In the months after his Aug 30 lunch meeting with White Brown worked behind the scenes to support the Examiner sale to the Fang family even negotiating for a bigger Hearst subsidy email to the head of newspaper read in open court said: asked Willie how I was going to justify to my superiors in New York wanting to support him and cooperate with him when he was seeming to go out of his way to make our lives Hours later White recanted his testimony saying he misspoke was tired and confused by the White said in a statement distributed by Hearst Corp implication of my answer that the pages of The Examiner can be influenced under any circumstances is Hearst issued a statement also denying any favorable treatment had been offered: is not now nor has it ever been a policy of the San grancisco Examiner to Front pag Cl destroy it But on March 30 a day before the sale was to be completed Judge Walker stunned the publishers by Issuing a restraining order He said the purpose of the federal law that authorized the JOA to keep foundering newspapers afloat would not be served if the transactions that ended the JOA were designed to let only one paper survive The trial opened May I and in the two weeks that followed the most riveting and controversial testimony came from the first witness Tim White the publisher shocked the courtroom when he revealed that at a lunch meeting in August 1999 weeks after the purchase of the Chronicle had been announced he offered Mayor Willie Brown favorable treatment in 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