Before we explore those possibilities, though, let's look quickly at Napster itself and the options for using Napster on cell phones.

College students and others have been using Napster in a frenzied exchange of music, pirated and not.

So rather than using Napster or one of its imitators, he has created a software program that demonstrates their perils.

"They exist, and some people will pay for them, but the mass audience that used to use Napster uses nothing right now."

Nothing could be easier, using Napster or its knockoffs, than tracking down a bunch of free Beatles songs.

A moment: In January of 2000, I used Napster for the first time.

"I use Napster simply because it is easy and more importantly free."

In the view of these techies, then, using Napster presents only theoretical privacy risks.

- 1 month 17 days ago I used Napster back in 1999.

- 1 month 17 days ago When I started using Napster in 2000, it was to download free music, lots of it.