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To: Road Walker who wrote (103350)	5/11/2000 10:25:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John, RE:"You have to wonder what kind of new functions this type of software will enable. It sort of makes your PC part of one single PC system exchanging information, without an intermediary. Maybe this Internet thing has a future <g>." Of course you must know that Napster has the RIAA (Recording industry association of america) and various other factions of the recording industry throwing lawsuits at it. Seems they want to protect their rights to a big cut on the distribution of music and Napster has them very nervous. Even Metallica is suing Napster. They managed to compile a list of 335,000 Napster users who were offering their songs and delivered the list to Napster with the demand they stop allowing distribution of Metallica music. OTOH, at least one band is encouraging the use of Napster, Limp Bizcut. MP3.com recently lost a case brought by a plethora of recording labels, Sony, Elecktra, BMI etc. The stock dropped from 105 to 5. Now MP3.com has made a deal with BMI. MP3.coms stock is looking up. You mentioned more programs. There is a new program that runs on top of Napster called Wrapster. It allows the transmission of ANY files, not just MP3s. Hows that for file/program/whatever sharing? You're right in the middle of all the excitement. Jim

To: Road Walker who wrote (103350)	5/12/2000 10:03:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

John, interesting article... seattletimes.nwsource.com Friday, May 12, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific Northwest Digest Loudeye, InterNap will help Intel's streaming media by Seattle Times business staff and news services SEATTLE - Intel, the largest computer-chip maker, said it has partnered with two local companies to introduce services that allow businesses to stream video and audio faster on the Internet. As part of a new $200 million business to help Web sites meet demand for audio and video programming, Intel said it will partner with Seattle-based Loudeye Technologies and Seattle-based InterNap Network Services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Shares of Loudeye Technologies soared $2.688, or 17 percent, to $18.50 yesterday. Shares of InterNap were unchanged at $33.75. Loudeye, a maker of streaming software, will encode video and audio files for the newly created Intel Internet Media Services. Once the content is encoded to a digital-media format, Intel's new media service will host, distribute and manage content. Intel Internet Media Services will then become part of Loudeye's distributed hosting network, where encoded content is stored. Intel will use InterNap's services to improve the connections needed to stream media files, which are often too bulky for conventional channels. InterNap said it routes data faster by accessing a single connection from a customer's network to one of the company's facilities. Under the agreement, Intel Internet Media Services will locate servers at InterNap locations to improve content distribution. Streaming-software king? The record speaks for itself SEATTLE - RealNetworks is using Microsoft's own words to hammer its streaming-software rival. A news release sent yesterday quotes Microsoft's response to the federal government in its antitrust case, specifically, Section 3(b) paragraph 11, that RealNetworks is the "clear leader in Internet streaming-media software." "We can't say it any better than Microsoft's lawyers did," said Jeff Pancottine, RealNetworks' senior vice president of Media Systems Marketing and Sales. Microsoft, which often faces off with RealNetworks over the merits of their respective streaming products, did not return a call seeking comment. RealNetworks also announced that it will integrate its RealAudio into Microsoft's WebTV service. Under the agreement, WebTV customers can access audio files from Internet radio stations featured on Real.com using RealAudio, the audio component of the multimedia software, RealPlayer.