may be it is not nothing to do with your mail heiko
but "enjoy napster while you still can"
Napster users see full weekend of downloading before court decision
REUTERS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 — With a possible court-ordered shutdown of Napster
looming Monday, fans of the online song-swapping service said they planned
to spend the weekend downloading music.
“I’VE ALREADY BEEN investigating new alternatives to Napster such as
Aimster and Gnutella,” said Cary Miller, a new media executive and Napster
enthusiast.
“Right now, I have over 110 songs sitting on my hard drive that I’ve
downloaded on Napster, and this weekend I will probably download another 50
or so depending on how much time I have over the weekend,” he said.
Earlier on Friday, a federal court said it would issue its opinion on
Monday as to whether it should re-issue an injunction against Napster that
would effectively shut down the wildly popular song-swap service.
A three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on
Oct. 2 heard arguments from both Napster and the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA), which requested the court lift a stay on an
injunction against the service, which has attracted over 50 million users.
Users flocked to the site following the court’s announcement on
Friday.
“You can assume the Napster servers are maxed out ...,” said Bruce Forest,
vice president for Sapient Corp. , referring to the server computers that
manage the flow of data in a network.
One Long Island, N.Y. 14-year-old said he would like to spend all
weekend downloading songs, but would have to squeeze in his song-swapping
activities between working on school assignments.
“I’d hate it if it was shut down. But even if they shut it down,
there are hundreds of ways to get songs on the Internet,” he said. “But
Napster is still the easiest.”
Napster’s service, which lets fans swap songs for free, is considered
a haven for piracy by the big music companies which are seeking the
injunction to stop it from operating pending a final decision in the
landmark copyright lawsuit
Since the lawsuit was first filed in December 1999, Napster’s service has
continued to gain popularity.
To date, the service has amassed over 50 million users who log on to
the service to swap individual songs for free by trading MP3 files, a
compression format that turns music on compact discs into small computer
files.
NAPSTER HAS SAID IT WILL ABIDE BY COURT RULING.
In the past, Napster officials have always said they would comply
with any ruling that the court issues.
The company got a shot in the arm in late October, when BMG parent
company Bertelsmann AG one of the record labels suing Napster, broke ranks,
saying it would drop its suit once Napster transformed itself into a paid
service that pays royalties.
As part of the deal, Bertelsmann provided an estimated $30 million
to $50 million in funds to Napster and obtained a warrant to buy a stake in
the company.
Bertelsmann invited the other music companies to participate, which
would make such a music subscription service most appealing to users.
To date, Napster and Bertelsmann have scored support from
Germany-based Edel Music AG, one of the world’s leading independent labels,
and TVT Records, a large U.S. independent label.forces with Napster
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