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...Another problem is that peer-to-peer file sharing systems, like Napster, can allow porn to be posted at prearranged times on an unsuspecting host, then quickly removed. Breaking international rings takes agonizing coordination among multiple jurisdictions, many of which lack savvy cybercrime squads. And in some countries, laws and attitudes still lump adult pornography-which may reflect consensual activity-together with child pornography, "which is the picture of a crime scene, of a child being sexually assaulted," says Rachel O'Connell, director of research at the University of Central Lancashire's Cyberspace Research Unit...
...boosterish corporate leaders--every earnings report is upbeat, all bad news is only temporary--Napster CEO Hank Barry is refreshingly morose. The legal system is poised to squash Napster, making it impossible to continue operating, he says grimly. To stay alive, Napster will need the cooperation of the big record labels--the very labels it has tormented until now. And, oh, by the way, Napster also needs a major technological overhaul so it can sort through the millions of files shared on its site every day and filter out the illegal ones. "Welcome to my world," Barry says with...
Barry's world was until recently a happy place. With its impressively easy-to-use format for sharing free music files, and with more than 50 million enthusiastic users, Napster was clearly one of the most important things to happen on the Internet. When it joined forces with German media giant Bertelsmann last year, Napster seemed to be headed toward respectability--and profits. But there has always been a catch: the music industry, and many performers, insist that what Napster calls music "sharing" is in fact nothing more than music stealing...
...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...
...ruling undermines the Napster way of life. As much as 87% of the music being shared on the site today may be unauthorized. And it presents the company with a stark practical problem. Napster, which was cobbled together just two years ago by college student Shawn Fanning, then 18, has never included a mechanism for identifying unauthorized files...