Napster

Vanessa Jourdan used up her lunch hour June 20 to race down to Best Buy at the Metro Pointe at South Coast shopping center to check for a new CD on the rack. She didn’t intend to purchase the album, but when she found it, she examined the front and back cover intently and snapped one picture after another on her cellphone.

Who would have thought the band who famously fought Napster would be, eight years later, masters of the Internet? Its guitarist, for one, didn’t.

Vanessa Jourdan used up her lunch hour June 20 to race down to Best Buy at the Metro Pointe at South Coast shopping center to check for a new CD on the rack. She didn’t intend to purchase the album, but when she found it, she examined the front and back cover intently and snapped one picture after another on her cellphone.

FRESNO, Calif. -- A self-proclaimed teenage computer nerd hopes a new company he’s launched will become an online powerhouse — and he’s got the backing of Microsoft to help him do it.

Vanessa Jourdan used up her lunch hour June 20 to race down to Best Buy at the Metro Pointe at South Coast shopping center to check for a new CD on the rack. She didn’t intend to purchase the album, but when she found it, she examined the front and back cover intently and snapped one picture after another on her cellphone.

Metallica has remained the monster of American metal music for more than two decades, surviving death, drug and alcohol abuse, raging egos, legal battles and a film capturing its feuding members in group therapy.

Who would have thought the band who famously fought Napster would be, eight years later, masters of the Internet? Its guitarist, for one, didn’t.

FRESNO, Calif. -- A self-proclaimed teenage computer nerd hopes a new company he’s launched will become an online powerhouse — and he’s got the backing of Microsoft to help him do it.

When Shawn Fanning was born, on Nov. 22, 1980, he lived with his single mother, Coleen, and a rotating cast of her eight brothers and sisters and their families in working-class Rockland, Mass.

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