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

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]

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'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]

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

On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a suit against content-aggregation site MP3Board.com. [Wired News]

Something good is coming out of the MP3 craze after all - David Williams couldn't find an audio version of the Bible on the Internet that he could download, so he decided to record one himself in MP3. [Wired News]