Word: napstering
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Metallica also hired NetPD, a consulting firm, to monitor Napster for users who illegally traded its music. Metallica brought the resulting list of more than 300,000 users to Napster's attention and insisted that these users be banned from its service under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed in 1998 to deal with digital media...
...Napster has since complied, and several Harvard students are among the many who found their accounts terminated...
According to Yale Director of Information Technology Services Daniel Updegrove, that school banned Napster use from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays because the service was using up to one-third of the network bandwidth...
...late April, Yale implemented a full ban of Napster use on its campus, and Metallica dropped the school from its lawsuit...
Meanwhile, because Harvard hasn't received any legal notification of copyright infringement from artists, University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. says that the university has not considered whether to restrict access to Napster...