http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/06/14/napster/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=66
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'The RIAA is arguing that the judge should pull the plug on Napster right 
away, because "the music industry will likely succeed [in its case against 
Napster] on their claims of contributory and vicarious copyright infringement 
and because Napster is causing irreparable harm to plaintiffs and the entire 
music industry."' 

(...)

'It's clear at this point that file-sharing software will never disappear; already, 
more than a dozen Napster clones let music lovers swap tunes. If a judge 
grants the proposed injunction, the fans booted off Napster will probably 
just flock straight to Freenet or {HYPERLINK 
"/tech/log/2000/03/15/gnutella/index.html"}Gnutella, which are competing open-source 
file-swapping technologies. With no corporate backers and scores of 
unknown users hosting the software on their private machines, services like 
Gnutella will never cut deals with record labels or musicians. They will never 
take in subscription fees.'


---> jab

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