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Older Net Service Picks Up Napster's Slack

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Older Net Service Picks Up Napster's Slack

May 2, 2001

By Bruce Simpson

With services such as Napster coming under increasing pressure from the recording industry to reign in the free trading of copyrighted music across the Net, savvy traders are returning to one of the oldest services Internet protocols -- usenet.

Although most browsers have support for reading usenet, or "newsgroups" as they are some times known, it is an area of the Net which has been largely ignored in favor of online chat rooms and message forums -- but that's changing.

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