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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had already sent more than 60 letters to ISPs of servers running OpenNap, an open-source program that uses the Napster protocol to provide similar peer-to-peer indexing. A user of OpenNap first employs any of a number of client programs (like Napster's MusicShare) to open up a hard drive for outside access; a list of contents are then uploaded to the OpenNap server, which does nothing but publish a directory of connected clients and offer a means of searching them. Any downloads are conducted between users, and the files--any file...
ISPs are already required to respond to requests to remove copyrighted materials--so copyright authors already have a remedy. Burdening search engines and other indexing services with a responsibility to filter their results through an RIAA-approved list would only slow their searches and dragoon their employees into the service of the copyright industry...
However, Hillary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has yet to respond to Napster's latest move...
...business model built on infringement is not only morally and legally wrong, but it is also a threat to the development of the legitimate on-line music market," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in a statement. RIAA is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry organization...
Conan also said that he and CEO Frank Hausmann had met with lawyers of the RIAA to present their plans for C-star, and would continue to do so as development proceeds...