CD-burner ponders post-Napster world

06:46 - Monday 5 March 2001 by THG Reporting Team
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: cd Category : Miscellaneous

Roxio Inc., the software company that claims 80 percent of the CD-burning program market, hopes that habits learned before Napster's legal defeats will persist. Roxio will spin off from its parent company, storage products maker Adaptec Inc. and focus on adapting to a world where most music downloads are controlled by labels.


As for the various digital rights management system being proposed, the company's CEO, Chris Gorog, says, "We will not become an electronic cop. We will not obstruct the consumer's free use of the Internet and we won't go the final mile and create some sort of obstructive device."


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