Napster blocks ****llica fans
Last week, the band delivered 13 boxes full of legal ********s identifying usernames of people who allegedly made ****llica songs available online and demanded that they be blocked from the MP3 music swapping service.As reported yesterday, the music company agreed, but it cautioned that "it is possible that users have been mistakenly implicated.""Napster has taken extraordinary steps to comply with ****llica’s demands to block hundreds of thousands of its fans from using the Napster system," Fenwick West attorney Lawrence Pulgram, who represents Napster, said in a statement today. Under earlier versions of the software, [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] people could have reinstalled the program and logged in under a [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] different name. But the company has added a feature that can tell whether a Napster user has been blocked, and it keeps most individuals from signing up using a different identity.Still, more trouble could be on the way. Los Angeles attorney Howard King, who represents ****llica and rap artist Dr. Dre, said that Napster’s service is still being scanned for people who might be pirating the rapper’s music, and that a new list of usernames will be sent to Napster next week.Napster’s music swapping program, which allows computer users to open their hard drives and quickly trade MP3 files with thousands of other people online, has thrown a panic into the music industry. ****llica and rapper Dr. Dre last month filed their own suits against Napster.But [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] ****llica raised the stakes on the legal battles last week.That put Napster in a legal bind: block its subscribers or risk undermining some [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] of the legal arguments that it is using to counter the record industry’s court attacks.Napster has chosen the safer legal path, but it was careful to let its members know that they have a way to appeal their eviction.Appealing the action could [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] lead to reactivation of a Napster account, but it also could expose a person to a lawsuit from ****llica, the company said. Napster offered a full explanation of the appeal process on its Web site.****llica’s lawyer said the band was unlikely to take its effort that far, however."Obviously, Napster knows ****llica then faces a Hobson’s choice: Do they sue people who may or may not be fans?" King said. "But I don’t think ****llica is going to sue fans, period, unless there’s been wholesale infringement."Despite ****llica’s actions, scores of the band’s songs were stillavailable through Napster as late as this morning.The new Napster software, which keeps people locked out even if they try to register a new username, could help the company in its legal battle against the RIAA.
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