Word: label
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...clear if Napster's efforts will be sufficient to convince the record label plaintiffs to drop their lawsuit...
Whether or not Mansfield is a racist can be debated until the end of time. Everyone has and is entitled to their opinion with respect to such a label. However, what cannot be debated is the fact that his credibility as a scholar is very much in question...
...future have changed the music business, if only by showing it what changes are coming. But having seemingly failed to beat the Big Five, Napster now has to wonder what future lies in joining them. Mp3.com bought legitimacy from the Big Five and tried to become its own mini-label, never to be heard from again. Now, as Napster tries to put its bad-boy days behind it, the line on the other side of the law is forming: Gnutella, Aimster, Napigator, BearShare and any number of others. Like they say about roaches, for every one you see, there...
...currently, when a CD is purchased, the majority of the proceeds go to the record label that produces the CD instead of to the artist. This system of compensation may have made sense when the only means of distributing music was through the sale of cassettes and CDs--the companies that made music portable deserved a slice of the pie. But as technology has progressed, the vested interest of the recording industry in maintaining the status quo threatens to undermine new and better ways of distributing music...
...instead by Department of Transportation regulations, which offer only guidelines for what a carrier must do. That boils down to rebooking you on another one of its flights or endorsing your ticket over to another carrier. But if weather is the cause of the problem, the airline can just label it an act of God and make you sit and wait for the delayed plane to take off, no matter how long that may be. "Airplane flights are complex events," says Terry Trippler, president of onetravel.com a travel website. "These days, passengers must begin to appreciate that there is some...