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September 15, 2002 Sunday

Porn company offers to buy Napster
By Reuters
September 12, 2002, 5:12 PM PT

Private Media Group, a publicly traded adult entertainment site based in Spain, on Thursday said it has made an offer to acquire the assets of defunct song-swapping site Napster.

In a statement issued from Barcelona, Private Media said that it had offered to acquire the Napster trademark and Napster.com Internet address for 1 million shares of Private Media common stock, valued at about $2.4 million. 
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C't hearing: Full sound with halved file size
Since now five years is MP3 the format of the choice for Musikdownloads from the InterNet and space-saving archiving of whole CDs. which the human ear does not hear, MP3 filters and reduces audio files on in this way less than a tenth its original size. 
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Why the PC world is uneasy
(Filed: 15/09/2002)

Personal computers are getting cheaper by the minute. Not good news for the industry, writes Richard Fletcher

For the beleaguered PC industry the news could not have been worse. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, famous for squeezing both margins and competitors, announced earlier this month that it was entering the home computer market with a $199 (£127.50) package.
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