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Napster denies fault in piracy case ■ In response to the copyright suit filed by Metallica, the MP3 site claims no responsibility By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald Despite being attacked by advo cates of the- music industry, as well as unhappy banned con sumers, Napster is holding strong in their position that they are not breaking copyright laws. On Tuesday, July 11, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich stood before . i _ a Senate com 1 calling for a stop to In ternet music '~-^dMP3 “piracy”. As the spokesperson USHMSfliP for Metallica, which is suing Napster, as well as others in the major music in dustry, Ulrich called for govern ment intervention to resolve the problem. “I don’t think there is a way this can be worked out without your involvement,” Ulrich said, ad dressing the Senate. “Napster hi jacked our music without asking.” Napster has quickly gained popularity in the last year by pro viding online surfers die ability to freely trade or download MP3 files, which compress music from compact discs into computer files. Metallica stepped into the fight after the group heard an unre leased work-in-progress for the soundtrack of Mission Impossible 2, and the leak was traced back to Napster. Rapper Dr. Dre has joined Metallica as the most vocal representatives from the music industry, which is demanding ac tion. Despite the opposition and af ter a New York federal judge’s rul ing that the company was break ing copyright law, Napster is standing its ground that it’s in the right. “I think we must let the market work and let history be our guide in not squashing this technology this soon,” Hank Barry said. Bar ry, CEO of Napster, has noted that the company is working out copyright complaints with radio, television and satellite TV organi zations. After the April 28 court ruling, Napster made an attempt to ap pease the Recording Industry As sociation of America and oppo nents such as Metallica, by requesting the band to provide a list of the names of Napster users who have committed copyright infringements. With the names from that list, Napster has banned over 300,000 users. 30,000 of those users are now appealing the court ruling, an option given to them by Napster. Nonetheless, Napster’s actions are not a solution, according to groups supporting the Download able Music Awareness Project. A partner in DMA, Michael Robb of Cognicity, noted that a balance needs to be struck be tween the wide-open MP3 access that Napster provides, and the en crypted formats that music groups such as Metallica are pushing for. According to Paul Anthony, CEO and founder of DMA and Rumblefish Records, DMA’s goal is to educate consumers, rather than saying what is right or wrong. By putting it in perspec tive, DMA believes they can con vince fans that by providing mu sic for free, they are affecting the future music industry negatively. “We make money by selling in tellectual property. Just because you can’t put it in a box doesn’t mean it’s not worth something,” Anthony said. Cognicity, a leading audio wa termarking provider, is working on technology that will solve many of the concerns of content owners and organizations includ ing the Artists Coalition Against Piracy and the RIAA. Cognicity, which is located in Minneapolis, Minn., has created AudioKey MP3 tMark V.1.0, a tool which will protect record labels, artists and music providers from piracy. AudioKey is the online music industry’s first transactional wa termarking solution for MP3 mu sic downloads, and embeds unique watermarks into digital audio files in real-time, as the file is being downloaded. With this technology, content owners can fingerprint music and identify those who abuse content distribu tion rights. “The real-time process is very fast and will not impact the con sumer download time,” said Michael Fitts, president of In diego Global Distribution. “We believe this approach will help keep the honest people honest.” With further dispute on the horizon between Napster and the music industry, Anthony con cluded that while Napster’s tech nology is amazing, they aren’t tak ing responsibility for their actions. But technological progress like Cognicity’s Au dioKey will force them to do just that. “The fans want the music, and we’re trying to give it to them,” Anthony said. The Associated Press contributed to this article. Quicker response could save lives ■a newly released study suggests calling for help in the crucial minutes after a heart attack could help prevent needless deaths By Dulcie Feng for the Emerald The Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (REACT) study released July 4 found that most heart attack patients don’t call 911 emergency services when they feel discomfort in their chest. That trend seems to be chang ing. Gary Young, medical director of the emergency department at the Sacred Heart Medical Center, said emergency calls from heart attack patients have doubled since the study was released. “Every day [before the study was released] we got about 10 pa tients with chest pain, and last week we got close to 20,” Young said. The study was conducted be tween April 1996 and August 1997, and its primary goal was to reduce patient delay from the time of the first heart attack symp toms to time of treatment in the emergency department. Oregon Health Sciences University was one of the Northwest sites for the study. Jerris Hedges, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medi cine in OHSU, said Eugene and Springfield were chosen in the study because they represent middle American communities. They are not too large like Port land, but they’re big enough to have the advantages of news me dia, Hedges said. OHSU has worked with com munity groups to educate people in the study area. The researchers worked with doctors, nurses, emergency service groups, pa tients with no heart disease and those high-risk, heart attack pa tients in McKenzie Willamette Hospital and Sacred Heart Med ical Center to enforce awareness of heart attacks and the appropri ate response to them. The REACT study also encour ages patients to go to hospitals quickly and call for ambulances rather than driving themselves to the hospital. Hedges suggests pa tients should take nitroglycerine or aspirin when they start to feel discomfort. The major symptoms of heart attacks include trouble breathing, upset stomach and pressure, tightness and heaviness in the chest. “When the discomfort doesn’t go away in 15 minutes, they should go to the hospital,” Hedges said. Hedges said an ambulance usu ally takes 5 to 6 minutes, maybe up to 10 to 12 minutes, on average to reach patients. “If the ambulance gets to you, you’ve got a paramedic team that can deliver medicine and oxygen, and if you go into cardiac arrest they can defibrillate you,” he said. “So essentially, it’s like bringing the hospital to the pa tient.” In addition, Hedges suggests patients should not call their doc tors before they go to the hospital because calling doctors and wait ing for their calls wastes crucial treatment time. “Even if you would reach the doctor quickly in the office, they would only re-enforce the same message,” Hedges said. “So it is unnecessary to even make the call.” The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsored the RE ACT study. Jeffrey Cutler, director of the clinical applications and prevention program at the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood In stitute in Washington, D.C., said the most dangerous part of a heart attack is the first few hours. The purpose of “our research program here is to conduct the study both to see if people could be educated in such a way that they would respond more quick ly and get to the hospital, as well as to find out if a community edu cation program would put into a place and carry out the emer gency department overwhelmed by many people,” Cutler said. The Springfield Fire Depart ment has decided to more for ward with the REACT findings, lean Loun, an SFD spokesperson and a former REACT organizer in Eugene, said there is no question that education about symptoms help people to know that they are having heart attacks and to act fast. “We just want to reach more and more people,” Loun said. 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