Weeks before the original Napster closed down in 2001, Internet users were flocking to alternative song-swapping programs. Now, like Napster founder Shawn Fanning before them, file-sharing barons are facing their own day of reckoning in the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer. During the past four months, several Napster heirs have shut down and others are contemplating what they once couldn't abide: doing business by the entertainment industry's rules so they can survive.
January 04, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Weeks before the original Napster shut down for good in 2001, Internet users were flocking to alternative song-swapping programs. Nearly 20 million people used Morpheus in its first four months, for example, to trade music and other files for free online.
But the man behind Morpheus was worried.
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