Re: Napster destroys Western Civilization

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Marty Hayes <9ball[_at_]hostsite.net> countered to Lynn Winebarger:
>
> [...]
> the NY Times article about Freenet that several have pointed out
> in this forum over the last day or two specifically says that the
> Napster format is limited to digital music files.

That may be so; but how hard would it be to rewrite a little code so that the Napster software searches for files with the ".pdf" or ".doc" extension rather than the ".mp3" extension? I have to agree with Lynn. From where I sit it looks as if Napster has significant noninfringing uses.

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