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...pleased with the court's decision today," said Hilary Rosen, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the record companies. RIAA also sued Diamond over the first portable MP3 players in 1998, and is currently trying to stop another MP3 network run by Napster...
...Napster to cut down on piracy, but so far it has done nothing. Here's one example: Metallica has made it very clear that none of their work is authorized for free distribution. Napster's best feature, their search engine, quickly shows a number of users with Metallica MP3's. Why hasn't Napster banned them? Maybe it's because once this starts, Napster would end up with very few (if any) users left...
...contest, which drew entrants from more than 80 colleges nationwide, began with small "battle of the bands" competitions at each campus. From there, bands faced off online. Iuma.com posted links to each band's website so voters could listen to mp3 samples of their music. The highest vote-getters advanced...
...Creeping Death Music, claims that by failing to block student access to the Napster servers, Yale University, Indiana University and the University of Southern California violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Such a claim should not be allowed to stand. Although the majority of MP3 files are illegal copies of protected music, online distribution of free music is growing, and there are few channels for dissemination of this music as effective as Napster. Universities should not be forced to deny students access to a service with legal uses for fear that it will be used illegally...
Technology may soon make the decision in this particular lawsuit obsolete; new programs known as "Gnutella" and "FreeNet" may allow the Napster-like sharing of all types of data, not just MP3 files, and such services would be difficult to shut down because they would not rely, as does Napster, on a central server for searches. However, if carried to its conclusion, the spirit in which the lawsuit was filed would make universities into electronic gatekeepers, watching each packet of data sent across the network and monitoring students' activities online for fear of being held legally responsible...