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Register: AOL wins rights to Aimster domain name - America Online has won an arbitration battle against Aimster, and the music software company must now hand over aimster.com, aimstertv.com and aimstertv.net to the online giant. By Kieren McCarthy.
CNet: Aimster Loses Domain-name Battle with AOL - An independent panel of the National Arbitration Forum decides that several Aimster-held Net addresses violate AOL's AIM trademark.
'Aimster' thrives amid Napster woes - [CNN]
Record companies sue Aimster - [CNN]
Aimster file-sharing program runs on AOL's instant messaging - [CNN]
ZDNet News: Napster Cracks Down on Pig Latin - File-sharing firm Aimster has removed a Pig Latin-based program from its website that enabled Napster users to get around court-ordered restrictions on the popular song-swap service.
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: Aimster's Pig Latin Decoder is Gonester - A recent strategy for getting around recent rulings against Napster's song-swapping service, called the Pig Decoder, has been removed.
Slashdot: Uses of Pig Latin to Defeat RIAA - Thread discusses AIMster's offering of a Pig Latin encoder to circumvent RIAA regulations.

In re Aimster Copyright Litigation - In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir.
Madster - Madster was one of the many P2P file sharing services that appeared in Napster's wake. Initially called AIMster, it allowed users to share their files with others, but only with those on their buddy lists.