A new copyright law designed to protect the works of songwriters, is being tested in a case that pits the powerful recording industry against a wildly popular but controversial music start-up Napster. [News.com]

Napster's legal pain has become the computer industry's financial gain as millions of people download digital music to burn onto CDs or transfer to portable players. [News.com]

A federal judge made a legal error in ordering Napster to ban the trade of copyrighted music on its service, lawyers for the popular file-swapping service told an appeals court today. [News.com]

Napster on Wednesday released a Macintosh version of its wildly popular file-swapping software, officially welcoming Apple computer users to the free-music revolution. [News.com]

Explanation of the Napster software and the law suit details to date. [News.com]

New Napster 'hack' that allows not just music transfers, but video and software also. [News.com]

The music-swapping company hires Gracenote, which maintains a massive database identifying recorded music, to help find and block songs from being traded online. [News.com]

For faithful Napster members wondering how they'll get free music from now on, solutions are quickly making the rounds. [News.com]

More people may be window-shopping at online music retailer CDNow since they started using software from file-swapping service Napster, but fewer people are buying, according to a new report. [News.com]

More than 30, 000 of the Metallica fans banned from Napster last week have appealed the move, saying they didn't do anything illegal. [News.com]