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John Fielding, CEO
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The National Music Publisher's Association filed suit on November 20th against the parent companies of music file-swapping services Music City, Grokster and Kazaa, alleging copyright infringement.
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Steve Riggins, Software Deveoper
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File-Sharing Applications : Napster is gone, but we can show you many ways to share music, software and other types of files using free programs such as AudioGalaxy, KaZaa, and iMesh.
BBC News Research paper says industry attempts to stop the swapping of pop music on online networks such as Kazaa will never work.
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Pete Trengle, Bass Player
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When Cameron downloads free songs using the website Kazaa, the successor to Napster, he doesn't think about the impact on the profits of Sony, Warner, EMI and BMG - or the royalties the music makers will miss out on.
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Mike Enlow, Internet Marketer
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Maybe the best avenue is for search engines like Napster and KaZaA to charge a membership fee and pay royalties to artists whose music is being downloaded.
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Rob Verdann, Afterdark Removalist
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Ever since Napster and other file-sharing programs, like Kazaa and Morpheus, have cropped up, the music industry and lawmakers have been wrestling with ways to stop the rampant illegal downloading of music and movie files.
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Dave Simons, Internet Entrepeneur
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Music and Video downloads, including listening to live radio, watching video clips, or engaging in Peer-to-Peer automated file transfer (Napster or KaZaa for Instance), is very intensive of resources.
Apple Silences iTunes P2P Software Apple's move comes amid increasing hostility between the entertainment industry and music-swapping applications such as Kazaa and the now-defunct Napster.
Apple's move comes amid increasing hostility between the entertainment industry and music-swapping applications such as Kazaa and the now-defunct Napster.
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Dan Toomey, Computer Salesman
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But Microsoft is not alone: the KaZaa music-sharing software is designed so that KaZaa's business partner can rent out the use of your computer to their clients.
He demonstrated how to acquire and use the software needed to download music using different clients such as Kazaa Lite, WinMX, LimeWire, and Morpheus.
Kevs: if Napster/Kazaa was entirely legal for all uses, and could be advertised as such, then in five years time when printing out exact replicas of books, music packaging etc.
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