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Despite a spate of file-swapping lawsuits, it's not all bad news for TV and movie producers. They have far better alternatives than the music industry did when it was doing battle with Napster, and the better-known video-sharing sites seem to have learned the hard lessons of their music predecessors.

Muxtape founder 'walked away from licensing deals'

Muxtape founder Justin Ouelette says the bureaucracy of the music industry was just too much for him to deal with.

YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned.

iPod at 5: The little gadget that could

The Macintosh may be the soul of Apple Computer, but the iPod is its wallet.

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DIY: MP3 player buying guide

Let our video and text guide help you pick the perfect MP3 player.

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Get free, legal MP3s

Looking for new music but don't want to drop a lot of dough on MP3s from online music stores? Use one of these four stream-ripping apps to record Internet radio and pull out the MP3s you want. One even works with Mac OS X and iTunes, so you can put the new music on your iPod.

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.

Protect your home office - from your kids

There's nothing worse than setting up your home office, only to have the kids destroy the lot with an errant game install, virus infection or jam covered keyboard.

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