“Napster shows no interest in the trademark issues that have
roiled the DNS world, and has no quasi-judicial process to settle
name disputes: The first mover gets the name. Even if you don’t
have a permanent IP address, you can still register on Napster and
play, after a fashion.”
“Napster’s search engine searches this name space and links to
files, all using proprietary protocols. Napster’s chat service also
uses this space….”
“There is a furious debate over how the DNS system will change
in the future. Specifically, there are various plans to add TLDs,
with various forces arguing that they should control these new
TLDs. Napster makes real what up until now has mostly been a straw
man in the DNS debate: The DNS needs the Internet, but the Internet
does not need any particular name space. What happens if various
entities create their own name spaces? Napster has unchained
the dog, and it is one big, bad dog: proprietary, anonymous, and
growing like mad.“