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Napster discord intensifies
■A federal judge has ruled
that the popular on-line
music provider has broken
copyright laws
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
The controversy surrounding
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tinues to stay hot after a federal
judge in New York ruled the com
pany and similar providers were
breaking copyright law by allow
ing their users to access and trade
songs for free.
The court decided that Napster
contributes to copyright infringe
ment by providing a database to its
users that allows for the free stor
age and access to their favorite
songs. The
music is
compressed
in the popu
lar MP3 for
mat and can
be accessed
via any com
puter with
an Internet
connection, without paying artists
for their copyrighted work.
After the April 28 court ruling,
Napster asked Metallica to provide
the names of the Napster users
who have committed copyright in
fringement and promised to re
move those users from its service.
Metallica provided a list with
more than 300,000 names of Nap
ster users who it said infringed on
the band’s copyright. Napster
banned those users, 30,000 of
which are now appealing the court
ruling. Napster apparently advised
banned users they had a right to
appeal the ban if they felt they had
been misidentified.
Napster has quickly gained pop
ularity among college students at
the University and nationwide for
offering free music at the click of a
mouse, and that has not changed
throughout the controversy.
Cory Coleman, a senior double
majoring in computer science and
psychology, said that many
banned Napster users signed up
again for the service minutes after
they had been deleted, simply us
ing a different log-in name. He also
said that Napster users among his
friends continue to use the MP3
provider.
“It doesn’t affect the individual
user yet,” he said. “Almost every
one I know in the dorms uses Nap
ster and continues to use Napster.”
The Recording Industry Associ
ation of America and artists such
as Metallica have sued Napster for
violating their copyrights. Nap
ster’s defense has been that it is no
different from such Internet serv
ice providers as America Online
and thus is not responsible for any
piracy its users might be commit
ting.
Internet service providers are
only responsible under the law to
ban users if they use their service
to break copyright law.
Rapper Dr. Dre on Wednesday
also delivered a long list of users
he wanted Napster to remove from
its service. Dr. Dre asked that Nap
ster either ban almost 240,000
users or delete his songs from the
service. Napster agreed to review
the list of users but said it would
not delete the songs. Despite the le
gal action over the past few weeks,
Keith Aoki, an associate professor
at the School of Law, said that Uni
versity students and other Napster
users are unlikely to become a tar
get of lawsuits.
“The liability is not so much in
dividual students,” he said. “It
would cost a lot of money to go af
ter individual students.”
Going after 300,000 individuals
could simply be too expensive and
tedious, he explained.
Instead, Aoki said he expects the
RIAA and Metallica to target larger
entities like universities.
Last month, Metallica and other
music artists filed a lawsuit against
the University of Southern Califor
nia, Yale University and Indiana
University, which all allow their
students access to the MP3
provider. The suit alleged that the
universities and Napster promote
piracy by allowing users to trade
copyrighted songs at no cost.
The suit against Yale was
dropped when that school banned
its students from accessing the
MP3 provider.
While the University has been
monitoring developments regard
ing Napster, Joanne Hugi, director
of the University Computing Cen
ter, said there,are no plans to ban
the MP3 provider. She said the
court ruling in New York applies
more to Napster users rather than
universities.
But she also said the computing
center has recently checked how
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