INFO/NYT: Napster is Providing the Music Industry with Sleepless Nights

        REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:      The music industry is filing a lawsuit against Napster because it facilitates the free downloading of music from the internet by matching those who want to download specific music with those who have the music on file for downloading. Napster is thus enabling free access and recording of music that would need to be purchased in stores.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584

jwne[_at_]astro.temple.edu

Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: AMY HARMON
Title: Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried Source Date: March 7, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Napster, Music Industry, Music,. Free Access, Downloading, Lawsuit, Intellectual Property Violations, Copyright Violations URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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March 7, 2000

          Powerful Music Software Has Industry
          Worried
          By AMY HARMON

    The music industry is already disturbed about how easy it is to copy music via the Internet without paying for it.

    But in recent months Napster has greatly magnified the threat. Acting like a music search engine, the software makes it easier to find and copy a far wider array of music. It also makes it easier for individuals to offer their own music collections to others.

    Napster, created last year by a 19-year-old college dropout, has spread so quickly among college students, traditionally the most avid consumers of recorded music, that the resulting glut of digital traffic has overloaded university networks. Dozens of campuses have banned students from using the service -- not because of copyright issues but to protect their networks.

    But Napster is by no means just a college fad. Every day, about a million otherwise law-abiding adult citizens are demonstrating no compunction about using the service to get free what they would have to pay for in a record store. And their numbers are growing rapidly.

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Full Story May Be Read At:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/07net.html

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