The appointment procedure exerted by the Napster operators yesterday acknowledged the judgement from July 2001 after which the music exchange service was shut down. At that time judge Marilyn Hall Patel had required that copyright protected material would have to be filtered to 100 per cent. Read more...
The Napster CEO Hank Barry had installed filter software soon after to meet the court ruling requirements. These filters however only managed 99.4 per cent filtering of music titles in question. The current court ruling changes little for Napster. This is because the file exchange is closed anyway. New owner Bertelsmann is currently working on a relaunch of Napster as a pay service. Bertelsmann is running a test operation since January but obviously did not succeed to agree with the music industry on a license model yet. Source: Computerwoche.de Related link: Napster.com
The Napster CEO Hank Barry had installed filter software soon after to meet the court ruling requirements. These filters however only managed 99.4 per cent filtering of music titles in question. The current court ruling changes little for Napster. This is because the file exchange is closed anyway. New owner Bertelsmann is currently working on a relaunch of Napster as a pay service. Bertelsmann is running a test operation since January but obviously did not succeed to agree with the music industry on a license model yet. Source: Computerwoche.de Related link: Napster.com
