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Napster
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... Napster Inc. ...
Napster makes there directory service freely available for download by people off of its website. ... The RIAA which represents record labels says that Napster helps what you might call breeding of copyright infringement. I use the word breeding because some people feel that by Napster offering free music between all the users infringement only becomes more popular, and therefore more and more musicians and their labels are losing sales from albums. Although some statistics have shown that certain bands album sales have increased since they have been on Napster. ... Eventually the case must be looked at as a first amendment issue, and that’s exactly where Napster draws its whole battle from. ...
All in all Napster says that the district courts decision for injunction was based on the conclusion that the directory was being widely used for illegal distribution of copyrighted music. What Napster wants to know is why this decision would not affect other directory services that exchange information that could indisputably be legally exchanged in other ways.
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Title: Napster
Words: 824
Rating: None
Pages: 3.3
submitted by: fazer1
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