Well if you think about it, it's a good story. Napster once heaven on earth, then the devil came and took it all away. Or a guy made rich because of his invention and then the big trouble. MSNBC reports that there might be plans to make a movie about the file swapping service.
I CAN CONFIRM we're in development on a project called 'Napster'," said Marc McCarthy, a spokesman for Starz Encore, a provider of movie programming for cable television operators that is a unit of Liberty Media Group. |
McCarthy said there was no commitment for production of the movie on Napster. Nevertheless, the story of the phenomenally popular song-swap service that turned the $40 billion recording industry upside down is a natural for Hollywood spin doctors.
Officials at Redwood City, Calif.-based Napster declined to comment on the possibility of a movie or whether they have spoken with Scott Fields, the Los Angeles-based screenwriter who has been traveling across the country interviewing people for the script under development for Starz Encore.
Industry sources said Fields has met with people who have associated with the company and friends of Shawn Fanning, the Northeastern University dropout who at 18 wrote the source code for the music file-sharing program as a way for his friends to share their favorite songs online.
I hope that if it will be the real story of Napster there will be also a happy end...
Source: MSNBC.com
