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...This was a strictly legal solution, designed to get the RIAA lawyers off its back at any cost so that Patel wouldn't shut down the service outright. The RIAA was holding all the cards, legally, and Boies knows from his IBM and Microsoft battles how much judges hate arrogant technology companies. So he did what he had to do to keep the site alive in any form...
...Napster's ultimate dream is to be a kind of AOL, to use its brand name and market penetration to be a legitimate pay-for-play community sometime in June, with the blessing of the record companies. But the RIAA wouldn't budge; they wouldn't wait until then because they knew they didn't have to. So Napster is going to try to just limp along until summer, and hope their users are still around when they've actually got a revenue model that passes muster with the RIAA...
...even been talk of AOL-Time Warner buying Aimster, which would really break this thing open. Because nobody's going to take on AOL. [Note: As the parent of TIME.com, AOL Time Warner owns this article.] Realistically, technology is going to find a way to stay ahead - the RIAA is never going to be able to stop this from their end. You can't encrypt sound...
...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...