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Napster skates on thin ice against legal challenges 18 May 2000 San Mateo software startup Napster, Inc., under siege from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Metallica, and Dr. Dre, continues its strategy of disingenuousness by taking advantage of a loosely worded legal challenge brought by Dr. Dre (Andre Young). Dre and his lawyer Howard King have demanded that Napster remove Dre’s music from their service. Since Napster provides access to MP3 music files rather than providing the files themselves, “removal” would entail blocking access to his songs. Duh. But Napster spokesman Dan Wool cooly responded to the challenge by stating the obvious: “Napster does not itself make available any MP3 music over the Internet.” He continued, “Napster is going to follow the same procedures as it did with Metallica.” Those procedures are to disable the logins of users named by the artist as having downloaded their songs, and then to reinstate any users who claim that they were wrongly accused—leaving it up to the artist to sue each user individually. But blocked users can simply open a new account to regain access. | Associated Press story | | top of page | |
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