AND Napster just keeps on clinging to life.
The web service that won't say die is heading for a comeback at the end of the year.
And if that's not joy enough, whizzkid founder Shawn Fanning is back on board, telling new owner Roxio - which bought the site's assets for £3.15million in November - how to make a success of the venture.
The file-sharing network which kick-started the MP3 digital music phenomenon will return as a fee-based site.
Roxio's Elliot Carpenter said the new service will be "easy and fun and have the broadest range of artists - and the right price".
Sounds almost too good to be true.
Whether those in charge of music rights will be prepared to work with a company carrying so much baggage is another thing entirely.
Meanwhile, a Dutch company called PGR is causing a few headaches for the record companies. Claiming it "will become to file sharing what the Swiss are to banking," PGR is to exploit a loophole in Dutch law that says ISPs and peer-to-peer file-sharing services cannot be held responsible for users' copyright infringements.
Therefore any illegitimate file-sharing business set up in Holland is exempt from prosecution. Theoretically.
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