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...interpret this as Napster getting religion right before the courts flip the switch on the electric chair." ROBERT SCHWARTZ, American lawyer, on the song-swapping company's pledge to block access to copyrighted music after an adverse legal ruling
...ever wrong. Back in November, I wrote an op-ed in this newspaper celebrating the beginning of a new era in the distribution of music. Napster had just signed a pact with the record label Bertelsmann, and it looked as if the rest of the Big Five labels would follow suit shortly. Napster would set up a subscription service, I predicted, and you and I would never buy another CD at Tower Records again...
Well, the brave new world has arrived, and it looks decidedly like the past. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has ruled that Napster must prevent its users from trading in copyrighted material. Last week, the record labels delivered to Napster a list of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted songs, files which Napster now filters to prevent users from trading. Intrepid users are now resorting to misspellings and Pig Latin to avoid the filters, but it's doubtful that the majority of users will ever find Napster as convenient as it once...
...Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines. Not that much has happened in music. Sporty Spice has left the Spice Girls, which leaves the group yet another fennel seed short of five-spice powder. And filtering has started: A search for "Oops I Did it Again" on Napster this week found songs by "Brittany," "Brittney," and "Britny" Spears. Great. Just like those bootleg CDs you find in the alleys of Thailand...
AIMSTER With Napster on the ropes, rival getting 20,000 downloads a day. No recount on this one, Mr. Boies...