Napster prepares to file for bankruptcy.

Napster, the online music website, is preparing to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets after rejecting a 30 million dollar buyout offer from German media giant Bertelsmann. The once wildly popular Internet site, shut down by court order since last year, appears to be collapsing under a weight of debt, boardroom bickering, executive defections and pressures from the world's largest record companies, according to sources close to Napster. Since the shutdown, the company has been struggling to find a legitimate place in the growing field of legal online music distribution sites, fielded by the world's record companies. But the record companies have refused to give Napster access to its catalogs. Also working against Napster is the rise of Dutch KaZaA, recently acquired by an Australian group, and other music exchange sites, which use a decentralized system of music distribution, making them harder to target by industry lawsuits.
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