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Attorneys for heavy-metal band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre sent a letter to Harvard Sept. 6 asking the University to ban student access to the Napster music-trading service via the campus network. The letter, which carries the implied threat of a lawsuit and requests a reply by Sept. 22, asserts that Harvard has a "moral, ethical, and legal obligation" to block Napster access. Rather than accede to Metallica's demands, Harvard should make clear in its reply the University's commitment to open student access to electronic resources and its refusal to act as an electronic filter...
...Metallica and Dr. Dre have been some of the most active musical groups in opposing Napster, whose peer-to-peer system has enabled the large-scale duplication of copyrighted music in compressed MP3 format. Many of Napster's users are students with high-speed Internet access through their universities, and Metallica and Dr. Dre have pursued perceived infringements accordingly: lawsuits filed under federal racketeering statutes against Yale, Indiana University and the University of Southern California were dropped only after those universities banned Napster access. However, those universities acted more for reasons of expediency than fear of legal sanction; a number...
Harvard has not yet decided how to respond to a written request from an attorney representing rapper Dr. Dre and rock group Metallica urging university officials to prevent students from accessing the music sharing program Napster...
...other camp are those who argue that Napster is nothing more than a tool for the wholesale infringement of intellectual property rights. Artists like Metallica and Dr. Dre argue that users will not be willing to purchase music if they can get it for free on the Internet, and artists will therefore not be properly rewarded for their effort...
...likely I've purchased fewer CDs as a result of using Napster. When I see Metallica and other bands speak proudly and boastfully of a lifestyle lived in gorgeous mansions, driving fast cars and steeped in drugs and alcohol, do I ever feel even a slight twinge of guilt for downloading music for free? No chance. RYAN M. TIERNEY Indianapolis...