i never thought i'd see the name "Metallica" on my company's site.....
go CNET!!!!!!
check out the chat at artistdirect.com today at 5, too!!!!
-morgan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [MMouse]: Metallica v. Napster
>
>
> Let me introduce you to our new Hall Monitors: James,
> Lars, Jason and Kurt.
>
> In my humble opinion these fuckin' guys suck...
>
>
> --Rick Miller
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>
> Metallica fingers 335,435 Napster users
>
> By John Borland, CNET News.com
>
> Metallica has been taking names.
>
> The heavy metal band, which is suing music-swapping
> company Napster for what the musicians say are massive
> copyright violations, says it has identified more than
> 335,000 individuals who were allegedly sharing the
> band's songs online in violation of copyright laws.
>
> The band's attorneys will deliver close to 60,000
> pages of documents to the small software company
> Wednesday afternoon, asking that Napster block all of
> those individuals from the service. It's the first
> time Napster or other file-swapping software users
> have been identified in bulk as potential copyright
> pirates.
>
> "I don't know if it's going to put a chill on the
> user end," said Howard King, the Los Angeles attorney
> who represents Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre, who
> also is suing Napster. "But it certainly is going to
> show other artists what they can do to get their work
> out of Napster."
>
> The massive number of individual names to be unloaded
> on Napster's front door could send shock waves through
> the online music community. Many individuals using the
> software or rival products believed they were
> operating anonymously or that individual actions would
> go unnoticed among the massive quantity of files being
> traded at any given time.
>
> Napster and a handful of similar programs have allowed
> hundreds of thousands of computer users to open their
> hard drives and share music files with others online.
> People can remain superficially anonymous, but enough
> information is transmitted by the Napster service to
> track many individuals to their specific computers,
> network administrators say.
>
> Attorneys for Metallica say they hired NetPD, an
> online consulting firm, to monitor the Napster service
> this past weekend. The firm came up with more than
> 335,000 individual users who had made the band's
> content available online, the lawyers said.
>
> Napster has consistently refused to remove specific
> artists' content from its service, noting that it is
> only a directory for the individuals who are trading
> the files. But the company has said it would eject
> users who are specifically identified as copyright
> violators.
>
> Napster had no comment on the news.
>
> Metallica's action is the latest development in what
> appears to be a campaign aimed at dissuading people
> from using Napster by adding an element of risk.
>
> The band initially sued three universities that
> allowed students to use Napster, charging that they
> were assisting in copyright piracy. All three quickly
> backed down, blocking or sharply restricting use of
> the software on their campuses.
>
> Metallica and Dr. Dre also included slots for unnamed
> students and universities in their lawsuits, saying
> they would be added later as the musicians obtained
> more information.
>
> The current list of Metallica song-traders will only
> be given to Napster and will not be included in the
> lawsuit, King said. Dr. Dre has not yet conducted his
> own search for pirates, but the same techniques will
> likely be applied to the rapper's work if Napster does
> respond, the attorney added.
>
> Another lawsuit against Napster, filed by the
> Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is
> in federal court, where a judge is expected to make a
> preliminary ruling any day.
>
> Metallica is scheduled to chat with fans online
> tomorrow at the Artistsdirect.com Web site to explain
> its fight against Napster.
>
>
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