Word: models
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Under the agreement, Napster will develop a business model that should allow record companies and performers to be paid for their music. To help the tiny, 53-employee company overcome the enormous technological hurdles involved, Bertelsmann has opened a $50 million line of credit that could easily double. (Now hiring: any geek who thinks he or she can come up with a way to keep music files simultaneously accessible and copyright protected.) The Germans agreed that once the new model is in place, Bertelsmann's subsidiary BMG Entertainment will make its music catalog available and drop out of the copyright...
...with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar curves and modern appointments, will emerge in the luxury $30,000 category...
...sticking point now is the new business model, which nobody at either Napster or Bertelsmann is certain of. The main reason is technology. So far, it just isn't clear how to track every digital file out there and put a user name and a price on it. And there are huge questions about what a reasonable price would be. Barry has suggested a monthly fee of $4.95. But websites all over cyberspace burned furiously last week as Napster fans threatened to ditch the service if it charged as much as a nickel for music-file access...
Rubalcava and others who see Napster's continuance under the supervision of BMG as a victory for the Napster file-sharing community are displaying their ignorance of what made Napster great in the first place. Rubalcava correctly identifies Napster's primary innovation: the peer-to-peer file sharing model...
Should Gore prevail, he would certainly seize the opportunity to appoint another liberal justice along the lines of his favorite model, the late Thurgood Marshall...