Word: problems
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...similar cost) to five major download sites, but to download a track, say, a new Moby single, they'd have to first figure out which label Moby is on, then register as a paying user at that label's download site. Hardly a good solution to the Napster problem...
Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...
Assistant Director for Sports Media Relations Lisa McEvoy said she was not sure exactly what the problem had been with the first zamboni, but "something needed to be extinguished...
...Harrells' problem is one that was voiced over and over in three days of interviews in a fast-growing, politically moderate area the Bush and Gore camps consider up for grabs and critical to their success. With a handful of exceptions, even voters who have decided on a candidate said they weren't thrilled with their choice. "Bush is the lesser of two evils," said Joe Spencer, 45, an electrical technician. Betty Ford, retired from the construction business at 52, felt the same way about Gore. "I just find him so--What's the word?--unbelievable. But it'll probably...
IMPACT: Should extend the program's solvency through 2054, and will encourage private saving. But the plan exacerbates the long-term problem: an increasingly large share of tax dollars that must be spent on Social Security benefits...