800-pound gorilla of the recording industry
Vivendi Universal warms to Napster. But before you book your skiing holiday in Hades, note that any cessation of hostilities
will depend on Napster implementing secure copy control mechanisms. Which means
no more MP3s, and you can forget about downloading the latest PJ Harvey
track onto your Linux-based MP3 server. Now, if the recording racket stop assuming that their customers are thieves unless proven otherwise and burdening them
with totalitarian access-control schemes, we can be sure that the grand opening
of the Mt. Erebus ski resort can't be far away.