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]

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]

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

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

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

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

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 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]

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