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...that Napster has been digitally hobbled, what?s next? Maybe your public library...
However, the old filter was easily defeated by misspellings of the artist or song title, allowing an underground network of “Napster code” to develop, where users would drop vowels to add letters to confuse the filter...
Using a new file-identification technique called “acoustic-fingerprinting,” the new program will hopefully prevent users from trading any copyrighted material, whether the song is spelled correctly or not, Napster says...
However, many publishers still express hesitation over mass publishing on the Web of their copyrighted books in the wake of Napster, the popular digital music sharing program that suffered a debilitating injunction this spring after a lengthy court battle with the recording industry. The industry charged that Napster had enabled millions of users to trade copyrighted music online...
...Publishers are willing to put their material on the Net as long as there’s no ‘Napster-effect,’” said Patricia Marriott, Ebrary’s Vice President of Marketing...