Hard rock band Rage Against The Machine is offering an olive branch to fans angry about being booted from Napster last week, posting a long list of otherwise unavailable songs and videos to its Web site. [News.com]

Another round of music fans has been banned from Napster's music-swapping service for trading copyrighted music - but this time, the band involved appears to be as angry as the fans. [News.com]

IBM releases a new version of its anti-piracy technology for music that it says could help block song traders who use services such as Napster or Gnutella. [News.com]

Can Napster continue to exist as before with the recent merging with Bertelsmann? [News.com]

At least three renowned universities have decided against banning the use of the popular Napster digital music file-swapping software on their college campuses. [News.com]

A panel of appellate judges harshly grilled lawyers for both Napster and the recording industry before adjourning without a decision today in the latest round of a closely watched legal clash that pits the Internet against copyright laws. [News.com]

Nine hours before it would have been forced to shut down its music-swapping service, Napster has won a temporary reprieve. [News.com]

Year in Review: In a crowded San Francisco courtroom last July, Napster chief executive Hank Barry listened in dismay as a judge pronounced sentence on his vision of digital music's future. [News.com]

The popular group releases a single on Napster in what is the first official promotion by a BMG Entertainment-backed act to tap the controversial file-swapping service. [News.com]

Site arguing to keep Napster alive. Also contains news, message board, and information for banned users.

After failing to reach an agreement with Napster, EMusic on Tuesday unveiled software that identifies and blocks songs being shared by people using the controversial music-swapping service. Includes video footage. [News.com]

Although they're quick to defend the music file-swapping service, fans seem to have little loyalty to Napster as it battles the courts. [News.com]

The legal fight over music-swapping start-up Napster has divided Washington, pitting at least one powerful legislator against the Clinton administration. [News.com]

Report on the Wired's Readers Raves awards ceremony, including Napster receiving multiple awards. [News.com]

Napster not just for college students: 42 percent of US Internet users who download free copies of songs are between the ages of 30 and 49, according to a study released yesterday. [SFGate.com]

A pseudonymous hacker has launched a Web graffiti spree, defacing Web sites ranging from NASA to the Communications Workers of America with a pro-Napster message. [News.com]

List of frequently asked questions for users about the order for Napster's shutdown. [News.com]

Detailed article delving into how the music-sharing phenom began, where it went wrong, and what happens next. [BusinessWeek Online]

Federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel released the details of her decision ordering the company to close its digital doors. [News.com]

Napster's appeal of a court-ordered shutdown has granted the company more time but little room to maneuver in its ongoing clash with the recording industry. [News.com]

Napster's "New Artist Program", was recently redesigned to include a genre tree of music categories. Listen.com is now suing, because it thinks that the pages look too similar to information on its website. [Wired News]

Metallica released their long awaited "Download This" CD, and the band declared it Napster-proof. [BBspot]

The attorney representing Metallica and rap star Dr. Dre in their lawsuits against Napster is sending a barrage of letters to top universities, pushing them to block students from using the popular file-swapping software. [News.com]

An industry-backed group of musicians has launched a high-profile ad campaign against online music piracy, hoping to persuade fans not to use Napster and other similar Net tools. [News.com]

The file-swapping service releases a new version of its software that includes an e-commerce component linking to the Bertelsmann-owned retail site. [News.com]

Fans of the online music-swapping company downloaded 1.39 billion songs in September, transforming the hotly contested technology into one of the Internet's most popular applications, according to new studies. [News.com]

Napster and MP3 current and past news, updated daily.

Napster is asking its fans to participate in a two-day "buy-cott" this weekend, a plan aimed at winning support for the music-swapping firm. [News.com]

Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter has left the company and joined a San Francisco financial technology start-up, Round1 Private Capital Marketplace. [News.com]

More than 30,000 of the Metallica fans banned from Napster last week have appealed the move, saying they didn't do anything illegal. [News.com]

More people may be window-shopping at online music retailer CDNow since they started using software from file-swapping service Napster, but fewer people are buying, according to a new report. [News.com]

For faithful Napster members wondering how they'll get free music from now on, solutions are quickly making the rounds. [News.com]

The music-swapping company hires Gracenote, which maintains a massive database identifying recorded music, to help find and block songs from being traded online. [News.com]

Napster, an online music-sharing service fighting a landmark copyright dispute, sued online retailer Sport Service for wrongfully using its trademark. [News.com]

Digital music heavyweights gathered in Washington, D.C. to give testimony at a hearing on music downloading and file trading. [Wired News]

New Napster 'hack' that allows not just music transfers, but video and software also. [News.com]

Explanation of the Napster software and the law suit details to date. [News.com]

Features a large list of links to various news reports and other related information about Napster and their lawsuit.

Napster on Wednesday released a Macintosh version of its wildly popular file-swapping software, officially welcoming Apple computer users to the free-music revolution. [News.com]

A federal judge made a legal error in ordering Napster to ban the trade of copyrighted music on its service, lawyers for the popular file-swapping service told an appeals court today. [News.com]

Napster's legal pain has become the computer industry's financial gain as millions of people download digital music to burn onto CDs or transfer to portable players. [News.com]

Article discussing the Napster access fees and whether it will save them. [InfiniSource]

Just days after punk band The Offspring began selling unauthorized Napster merchandise through its website, the two parties choose collaboration instead of litigation. [Wired News]

A new copyright law designed to protect the works of songwriters, is being tested in a case that pits the powerful recording industry against a wildly popular but controversial music start-up Napster. [News.com]

Napster has fired its final legal salvo before meeting the record industry in appeals court, accusing the big labels of trying to hijack the beleaguered music-swapping company's technology. [News.com]

The drama of Napster's legal death-sentence has catapulted its site into the list of the Internet's most popular destinations. [News.com]

Despite the uncertain outcome of a court case that threatens to deal Napster a potentially fatal blow, the music-swapping service has released an updated version of its software that makes it easier to find specific songs and bands. [News.com]

Article explaining how Napster works and why the music industry is against it. [News.com]

Discusses the laws of 'fair use' and how it fits in with the Napster trials. [The Register]

Benefits of free music to the recording industry, and does streaming and downloading music on the Internet encourages CD sales? [Wired News]

Copyrighted songs still available; users jumping ship should pay attention to the EULA's they agree to. [InfiniSource]

Napster and Bertelsmann have attracted their first ally in their attempt to create a subscription-based version of the start-up's controversial music-swapping service. [News.com]

Political cartoons about the Napster issue from top newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world.

Napster's message for the courts and the recording industry is that downloading songs online without payment is legal. [News.com]

Fans have already embraced new music-distribution technologies. Musicians can fight them or join them. [Salon.com]

As music-swapping company Napster and the record industry skirmish in court, a bevy of technology companies are coming out with ideas they say can help the two sides settle their legal disputes. [News.com]

How traffic shapers are used to prevent Napster and similar bandwidth hogs from overwhelming campus and corporate networks.

We have some idea where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on health care, foreign policy and social security. But what about Napster and copyright claims, the issue that has taken the Net by storm? [News.com]

The law has caught up with "Pimpshiz," the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites with pro-Napster graffiti. [News.com]

Article about the new open source program Gnutella which shares music files over the internet, similar to Napster. [News.com]

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann said Tuesday that it has formed an alliance with online music-swapping service Napster, signaling a significant shift in the so far hostile face-off between the major record labels and the start-up. [News.com]

Bertelsmann's e-commerce unit is helping Napster infringe copyright recordings by financing the start-up's music-sharing operations, the former producer for 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane says. [News.com]

RIAA asked the courts to block all major-label content from being traded through Napster. [News.com]

If Napster really wants to bury the hatchet with the Recording Industry Association of America, it may have to eat crow and issue a personal apology. [News.com]

Discusses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). [The Register]

Report on some of the first statistics to reflect the effects of the popular MP3 software Napster, on retail CD sales. [News.com]

About one in three students would be willing to pay for an online music subscription service such as the one proposed by the file-swapping company, a report says. [News.com]

A broad coalition of technology and Internet companies are filing legal briefs today that are bitterly critical of last month's court decision against Napster, saying it could threaten the future of much of the technology industry. [News.com]

Napster's legal dream team had a rather lengthy response to the recording industry's lawsuit, but the message could be boiled down into two words: Screw you. [Wired News]

Explains the details of the law suits proposed against Napster and what they mean. [InfiniSource]

Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins released what is being called its final album on vinyl and the MP3 format last week, forgoing a CD release through its record label, Virgin Records, according to postings on the band's Web site and published reports. [News.com]

Napster may be changing the face of its service, making it subscription-based, and offering legal song downloads from supporting record labels. [News.com]

Transcript of Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's ruling in the Napster vs RIAA legal case. [News.com]

Madonna's new unreleased single found its way into the music-swapping Napster community and onto a few MP3 Web sites. [News.com]