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APSTERNAY The bad news: last week a U.S. district court judge told the file-swapping service Napster that it has to stop users from trading copyrighted music. The good news: Napster isn't trying all that hard. Software filters are supposed to keep users from posting songs that the record labels have asked Napster to block, but the filters are ridiculously easy to fool. Disguise a song title with an obvious misspelling--say, replacing the word to with the number 2--and the filters won't pick it up. One popular strategy is to post a song with its title...
...survived the short truck ride. When the convoy rolled out, leaving Ma'rus and her daughter behind, it was escorted by squads from the Mobile Police Brigade, the national force's paramilitary troops. Despite the matte black M-16s they carry, the teenagers who make up the rank and file of the Brimob, as Indonesians call it, have a serious inferiority complex. In their gray and chocolate-colored uniforms, they resemble private security guards more than crack troops, something they are painfully conscious of, especially when they meet up with the real army. And when the trucks finally arrived...
...into the Vista using the cable and synching software that came with it. I figured wrong. Plagued with error messages, I pored over the useless manual and misleading online troubleshooting suggestions on the Royal website--to no avail. Not until I got a replacement unit and downloaded a new file online was I able to get the thing to work right. Even then, the Vista had so many quirks and bugs--names would get truncated, strange error messages would pop up--that I was ready to toss it in the trash...
...File-swapping, like rock 'n' roll, may never die, but Napster - and the copyright law that's killing it - is in serious trouble...
...Because file-swapping, like nature, seems destined to always find a way. Because decentralized operations like Aimster, BearShare and Gnutella don't have Napster's tragic flaw - those 12 central servers - they're legally bulletproof...