Word: napstering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson has learned that the University will deny a request to block access to Napster, the popular music-sharing service that has come under legal assault from the rock groups Metallica...
...worry about undermining its tape-delayed coverage is Canadian TV and print stories on the Internet. These are only cracks in a technological dike that's bound to burst open: Future viewers will have more satellite and broadband options, and the network is foolish, in the Napster era, to think it can forever keep people from accessing the live content they want...
Topics covered ranged from medicinal marijuana, which Gore opposes, to Napster, which Gore supports as long as artists are compensated, to same-sex marriages, about which Gore was equivocal...
...mostly around broad social issues, such as abortion (See it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), race, guns (See it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), popular culture, race again, and medical marijuana - along with a few demographic pet issues like Napster and the intentions of hip-hop. They asked a lot of patently impossible, Miss America-type questions (Mr. Gore, what will you do as president to end pain and suffering?) and Gore did not miss any opportunity to frolic in his boilerplate material. Which went over very well. The future...
...their letters to King, the universities all say that Napster use itself is not sufficient evidence for them to take action under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and say they will only take action in the case of individual acts of piracy brought to their attention...