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Public Interest

Aug. 10, 2000

Napster Is The Tip of An Iceberg

By Paul Krugman. Napster's big mistake, clearly, was basing itself in California. It should have operated out of Jersey. Not the homeland of Bruce Springsteen - I mean old Jersey, the island in the middle of the English Channel. Or maybe the Isle of Man.

By Paul Krugman
        Napster's big mistake, clearly, was basing itself in California. It should have operated out of Jersey. Not the homeland of Bruce Springsteen - I mean old Jersey, the island in the middle of the English Channel. Or maybe the Isle of Man.
        Napster, of course, is the company that made it easy for techno-savvy music fans to download free copies of the...

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