Thanks to a K. Beleaguered Napster, struggling to meet the demands of the courts and the music industry, is in talks with Microsoft about using the software giant's technology to help build a secure, copyright-friendly version of its online song-swapping service.
Each company could supply the other with a critical missing piece: Microsoft's security technology has been endorsed by most of the major record labels, whereas Napster would give Microsoft its entry into the nascent market for subscription music services.
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