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Napster and MP3.com bow to legal pressure 11 May 2000 Internet startup Napster has blocked access to its service for 317,377 users whose names appear on a list delivered by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Ulrich alleges that the users have illegally traded Metallica songs using Napster. The move is Napster’s first tangible response to a set of copyright infringement and racketeering lawsuits brought last month by Metallica, Dr. Dre, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Napster software, available only for Windows, allows Internet users to easily trade MP3 (MPEG I, layer 3 format) music files—bypassing all distribution controls. As such it has become extraordinarily popular, leading several US universities to limit or ban its use. Meanwhile, brazen online music distribution site MP3.com, who built a database holding the contents of tens of thousands of music CDs without permission, has shut down its new Beam-It and Instant Listening services. The RIAA sued MP3.com for copyright violation within weeks of the services going live in January. | BBC story | | top of page | |
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