Word: copyright
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...REAL DISCONNECT Revolutionary or reprobate? Shawn Fanning's Napster may have brought free music downloads to the wired masses, but a United States Court of Appeals ruled that the technology violates copyright laws. Back to the CD store? Illustration for TIME by Vance Ypsilanti...
...major setback to Napster, last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with the industry on just that point. It ruled that Napster must stop helping its users exchange unauthorized, copyrighted material. The court did throw Napster a bone: it put the burden for identifying particular copyrighted material on the music labels and other aggrieved copyright owners...
Napster also offered to pay $1 billion over the next five years to major record labels, songwriters, and independent artists to settle claims of copyright infringement...
...some doubt that even altering Napster will solve the problem of copyright infringement via file-sharing Internet programs...
...Each is more or less what Napster was to Mp3.com; each fills the same basic demand - free, virtual music - yet each adds some additional legal twist that makes it even harder for the Big Five's copyright lawyers to lay their hands on them. Pending the judge's rejiggering of her injunction order, the suits appear to have caught up to Napster; how will they catch up to Gnutella? And what happens when somebody transplants their server farm to Antigua...