Turnbull takes aim at partry rebels Nov 21, 2009
Search brisbanetimes. Back me: Malcolm Turnbull. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Govt, churches failed the kids: Rudd Nov 21, 2009
Search brisbanetimes. November 21, 2009 - 1:00PM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Crisis fallout still in first half: WEF Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 8:01AM. The impact of the global financial crisis is still in its "first half", but there is only a brief opportunity to bring tough reforms, the World Economic Forum has warned. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Up against the great wall of China Nov 21, 2009
Obama's visit to China. The world expected Barack Obama to win from Hu Jintao concessions the Chinese President wasn't in a position to deliver, writes John Garnaut. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Peruvian 'fat killers' butchered humans over decades Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 9:20AM. A Peruvian "brotherhood" accused of murdering at least 60 people and selling victims' fat to foreign cosmetics traders carried out its grisly work undetected for 30 years, Peruvian police said on Friday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Dwyer scores hat-trick in win over Spain Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 8:14PM. Jamie Dwyer has reconfirmed his status as one of the world's best players by scoring a hat-trick of goals in Australia's 8-2 win over Spain in the first Test in Perth. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Ambrose has V8 return plans scuttled Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 2:09PM. Australia's NASCAR star Marcos Ambrose has been thwarted in his attempt for a shock return to the V8 Supercar series for the season-ending race in Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Matildas get no favours in Asian draw Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 5:34PM. The Matildas face an uphill battle to reproduce their World Cup heroics of two years ago after receiving a tough Asian qualifying draw for the 2011 tournament. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Rann denies relationship with barmaid Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 5:09PM. South Australian Premier Mike Rann says claims by a former parliament house barmaid that they had a sexual relationship are "wildly sensational". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Fiji military seizes TV, radio licences Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 4:09PM. The Fiji military regime's seizure of broadcast licences is a "very bad signal" for international investment and freedom of speech in the Pacific nation, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Probe clears Vic ALP of branch stacking Nov 21, 2009
November 21, 2009 - 3:04PM. The Victorian ALP has been accused by its own members of failing to properly investigate allegations of branch stacking. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Cool change arrives 'with a bang' after hot spell Nov 20, 2009
MEX COOPER AND ROBYN GRACE. November 20, 2009 - 4:16PM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Leighton targets solid jump in earnings Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 6:24PM. Construction giant Leighton Holdings Ltd is targeting a substantial jump in earnings over the next five years and says it is looking to expand geographically. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Leaders pick Belgian PM as first EU president Nov 20, 2009
Search brisbanetimes. November 20, 2009 - 7:03AM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Crews rescue hundreds from UK floods Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 7:34PM. Hundreds of people have been rescued by emergency service workers after rising floodwaters caused chaos in England's northwest. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Postecoglou calls on Roar to show hunger Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 8:19PM. Brisbane Roar coach Ange Postecoglou has called on his players to "ramp it up" against a dangerous but leaky Melbourne Victory at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Ferguson says Mariners showdown crucial Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 8:44PM. North Queensland coach Ian Ferguson has issued a rallying call to his players ahead of Saturday's A-League clash with the Central Coast Mariners. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Phoenix shift focus back to A-League Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 7:59PM. Wellington Phoenix vice-captain Tim Brown is working to ensure there is no World Cup hangover ahead of his side's A-League match against Newcastle on Sunday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Sunderland honours his Nan with two gold Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 9:09PM. Rising Australian track cycling star Scott Sunderland has honoured the memory of his beloved grandmother with two gold medals at the World Cup round in Melbourne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Thompson's Jets captaincy in doubt Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 7:59PM. Newcastle coach Branko Culina has hinted Matt Thompson could be stripped of the Jets' captaincy after announcing he will leave the A-League club at the end of the season. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
What were your Top 10 internet moments? Nov 20, 2009
Were the rise of Facebook and the fall of Napster among the most influential internet moments of the decade ... Napster Shut Down (2001) Although Napster was shut down in 2001, it opened the file-sharing floodgates ... Perhaps the 2001 release of the BitTorrent protocol or the 2009 Pirate Bay trial deserve a mention - although maybe the shutdown of Napster covers peer to peer issues. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Funeral was 'the saddest thing you could imagine' Nov 20, 2009
Funeral was 'the saddest thing you could imagine. Funeral was 'the saddest thing you could imagine. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Snake bites schoolboy in playground Nov 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 - 6:39PM. A six-year-old schoolboy has been bitten by a snake in the playground at lunchtime. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Death of Epping woman treated as suspicious Nov 20, 2009
Death of Epping woman being treated as suspicious. November 20, 2009 - 10:23AM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Infotainment Nov 20, 2009
The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences which bestows the annual Webby Awards were. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
US election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments Nov 19, 2009
Napster shutdown in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates. Google's IPO in 2004 put the search engine on the path to powering countless aspects of our everyday lives. (India Times)
Top 10 internet moments of the decade Nov 19, 2009
- the shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001) ... The shutdown of Napster was totally inconsequential. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
List: the 10 most most influential internet moments of the decade Nov 19, 2009
- the shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001). - Google's initial public offering (2004). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Dangers of Sharing Music Files Nov 19, 2009
On any given day, Koeppen notes, 20 million people are using peer-to-peer networks like Lime Wire, Napster, BearShare and others, mostly to swap songs. But, stresses, Kathryn Warma, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Seattle, peer-to-peer users are "putting out a welcome mat, or even a neon sign on the Internet, (saying), 'There's a chump who lives here, come on in.' And they are inviting every lowlife around the world into your home.". (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade Nov 19, 2009
The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade ... - the shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001). (Yahoo! Asia News)
Face time wanted from Justin Timberlake Nov 10, 2009
But by mid-October, we heard that Timberlake, who plays Napster founder Sean Parker in the film, would not be coming to Boston and would be shooting all of his scenes in California. That seems to be true, as the pop star-turned-actor was spotted filming the flick yesterday in Los Angeles. (Boston Globe)
Local band to hold charity concert Nov 3, 2009
Music from One Step Away is available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic. For more info on One Step Away, visit. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
Best Buy to launch movie download service Nov 3, 2009
Last year the company acquired online music service Napster for 121 million U.S. dollars. (Agencies). (Xinhuanet, China)
Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster (2) Nov 2, 2009
Laurence Pulgram, an intellectual property lawyer who represented Napster in a copyright fight with the rock band Metallica, said Saturday that Fairey s case was in trouble. This was a brain-dead move by Mr. Fairey, and it could be the turning point. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Rolling on the river Oct 27, 2009
The film, which is being directed by David Fincher of Fight Club fame, stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield as the Harvard students who developed the site, and Justin Timberlake as Napster creator Shawn Fanning. Insiders on the set told us that the rowers pictured in this scene are real Harvard students. (Boston Globe)
Buffett's Wrong: 3 Companies That Beat His Oct 24, 2009
And a nanosecond ago, Napster was relevant, and Apple's biggest digital music competitor, Amazon. com, was mostly just a bookstore competing with the likes of Borders (NYSE: BGP). (MSNBC -- Business)
Europe backs down on piracy plans Oct 24, 2009
There have been a flurry of announcements about legitimate services in recent months, including Sky's SkyTunes service and tie-ups between the likes of internet service provider CarphoneWarehouse and music service Napster. New methods. (BBC News -- Technology)
Top Entertainment Stories Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster Oct 20, 2009
Laurence Pulgram, an intellectual property lawyer who represented Napster in a copyright fight with the rock band Metallica, said Saturday that Fairey's case was in trouble. "This was a brain-dead move by Mr. Fairey, and it could be the turning point. His lawyers will still be able to argue that he made a 'fair use' under copyright law, but it's a whole lot less likely that the court or jury will think that what he did was actually 'fair' if he has lied and tried to mislead the entire world... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Are we due a wave of book piracy? Oct 20, 2009
Page last updated at 18:36 GMT, Monday, 19 October 2009 19:36 UK. Are we due a wave of book piracy. (BBC News -- UK)
Justin Timberlake Grows Out His Curls For 'The Social Network' Oct 20, 2009
He will be taking on the role of Sean Parker, a Napster co-founder who helped Mark Zuckerberg grow Facebook after its launch at Harvard. In the book on which the film is based, "The Accidental Billionaires," Parker is presented as an ego-swollen party boy, part Silicon Valley wheeler-and-dealer, part see-and-be-seen nightlife maven. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Artist: Obama AP photo use not premeditated Oct 19, 2009
A brain-dead moveLaurence Pulgram, an intellectual property lawyer who represented Napster in a copyright fight with the rock band Metallica, said Saturday that Faireys case was in trouble. This was a brain-dead move by Mr. Fairey, and it could be the turning point. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Fay Wrays are ready to party Oct 16, 2009
The new album will be released digitally Oct. 28 via Amazon, Rhapsody and Napster. Inflight Nymphs: Mark this on your calendar: Alternative female trio Inflight Nymphs will release their third CD, "Scatter and Stray," at an Oct. 29 concert at Audie's Olympic. (Fresno Bee)
Innovate Media Helps Napster Find New Subscribers Using Latest Online Video Technology Oct 15, 2009
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innovate Media, a full-scale and delivery company, helped Napster deploy a video marketing campaign on its website that netted the digital music pioneer a windfall of new members for its interactive music subscription service. The campaign, running throughout 2009, utilized Innovate Medias unique video overlay technology and one of its premier products, an online video spokesperson who talked to each new visitor when they landed on designated pages at napster ... The... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Music blog to offer high-quality song streaming Oct 15, 2009
Best Buy Inc.-owned Napster, for example, sells a $5-a-month music-streaming pass billed in three-month increments of $15 ... This is double the streaming rate for Napster and for RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody and Microsoft Corp.'s Zune Pass subscription music services. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
VisibleGains hopes third incarnation is the charm Oct 12, 2009
VisibleGains is just the latest name of a Internet video company with roots that meander back to the dot-com days, when peer-to-peer file-sharing and Napster were all the rage ... NetCableTV started in 2004, with peer-to-peer video delivery technology licensed from John Fanning, a cofounder of Napster. (Boston Globe)
Will Napster's new approach pay off? Oct 9, 2009
Will Napster's new approach pay off ... The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones analyses whether Napster's attempts to lure British music fans with a cut-price offer will work ... Napster is an online music service that used to offer music for nothing, was shut down, and is now taking a legitimate approach. (BBC News -- Technology)
300 CDs going cheap Oct 6, 2009
Both Napster and Real Networks had tried without success to break through the traditional distrust of ''rental music'', said Mark Mulligan, a music analyst at the research company Forrester. Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Dell Consumer Laptops and Desktops in the US, UK and Germany to Come with a Year of Napster Oct 3, 2009
the pioneer of digital music, today announced that beginning later this month, Dell will ship select systems in the U.S., U.K. and Germany with instant access to a free year (retail value: $60) of Napster, including 60 MP3s of the consumers choice plus 12 months of unlimited on-demand music listening from a catalog of more than eight million songs ... Dell is now making it easier than ever for customers to enjoy their favorite music by downloading MP3s of their choice, as well as discover new... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Dell and Napster Provide Free Music to Customers Oct 3, 2009
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Theres great news for music lovers today, as Dell and Napster deliver the ultimate personalized music experience. Select Dell systems will come loaded with 1 free year of Napster including 60 free MP3s and 12 months of free music streaming ... Napster automatically adds music to your iTunes or Windows Media Player. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Columbia casts trio in Facebook film Sep 23, 2009
Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebooks founding president, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg as the social network became a financial juggernaut. Production will begin next month in Boston and then move to Los Angeles. (Variety)
Stars at war Sep 22, 2009
Worldwide album sales have halved in the 10 years since the original mass file-sharing software, Napster, appeared ... It is the most high-profile assault by artists against file-sharers since Metallica dumped the names of 335,435 downloaders in the Napster foyer nine years ago. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* UK soccer league accuses peer-to-peer site of piracy Sep 21, 2009
File-sharing music sites, including LimeWire and Napster, use the same peer-to-peer method, encouraging subscribers to make songs available to fellow users free of charge. Napster began as an illegal site but now operates within the law. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
'Idol' contestant's harsh words Sep 21, 2009
Download Music Downloads from over 500,000 artists with Napster. 00000000. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Spotify Is the New Napster, but Which One? Sep 21, 2009
Spotify Is the New Napster, but Which One ... Spotify Is the New Napster, but Which One ... Out of all the startups that have tried to reinvent the way we listen to music over the past decade, few have attracted as much attention as free streaming music service , the latest potential "iTunes killer." As the European company moves to unleash its sleek user interface on the American market, Spotify could prove to be as game-changing as the original Napster, the turn-of-the-millennium file-sharing... (BusinessWeek)
It's that time of beer Sep 19, 2009
Download Songs from over 500,000 artists with Napster. Visit the official source for broadway shows at Telecharge. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Is the Web Decaying? Sep 18, 2009
a co-founder of Napster who currently serves as managing partner of the early-stage venture capital firm The Founders Fund, agreed. "Otherwise, you will end up building an enterprise software company you have to scale up," he said. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Review: Can the Zune HD close the iPod gap? Sep 16, 2009
For some, the Zune Pass subscription service, which lets you download and listen to all the music you want, will be compelling, even though services such as Rhapsody (owned by Real Networks) and Napster (owned by Best Buy) haven't garnered nearly as many customers as iTunes. The device's Wi-Fi capabilities are helpful. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
In Texas district, Obama just an interruption Sep 13, 2009
Learn to adapt with the times like the smart recording companies did after Napster came on the grid. josef nix. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Jeff Vrabel: Diary of a Gmail outage Sep 9, 2009
4: 44 p.m.: Literally, me and this mysterious "cubicle-mate person" are using the occasion of a brief Gmail outage to reminisce about the sorry, somber state of the Internet in the Olden Days, when all was keywords and every time someone called in on your phone, it completely botched whatever you were downloading on Napster. I used to set up like 10 songs to download on Napster, go to a Cubs game, and come back home hoping nobody called. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Alice in Chains - in private Sep 8, 2009
Hollywood blog Scriptshadow, which reviews new screenplays - it s already given Aaron Sorkin s script for The Social Network two thumbs up - says it was told Timberlake will play Sean Parker, one of the founders of Napster who also had a hand in turning Facebook into an online phenomenon. Scriptshadow says Adventureland actor Jesse Eisenberg and British actor Andrew Garfield will star as Facebook creators Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. (Boston Globe)
Justin Timberlake set to star in Facebook film Sep 7, 2009
Producer Kevin Spacey, director David Fincher (Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) have settled on Eisenberg (Adventureland) to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Timberlake to play Napster founder Sean Parker and Garfield (The Other Boleyn Girl) to play early Facebook employee Eduardo Saverin ... It is ironic that one of the most famous pop stars is interested in playing Parker as his Napster program opened the floodgates to peer-to-peer... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Technology Quarterly: Of 3-D printers and other advances Sep 4, 2009
The Pirate Bay is the latest in a long list of file-sharing services, from Napster to Grokster to KaZaA, to have come under assault from the media giants. If it closes, some other site will emerge to take its place; the music industry s victories, in short, are never final. (The Economist)
At 40, Internet grows stodgier Aug 31, 2009
1999: Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry. 2004: Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook as a sophomore at Harvard University. (News & Observer)
Internet turns 40; open access at risk Aug 31, 2009
1999: Napster popularizes music file-sharing. World Internet population surpasses 250 million. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Smarter anti-piracy: The spider and the web Aug 30, 2009
Yet the approach is at least less wrong-headed than most of the anti-piracy efforts that have been launched since the appearance of Napster in 1999. Attempts to shut down file-sharing websites have merely encouraged the growth of others. (The Economist)
