Business As Usual (1988)

Business As Usual (1988)




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  • Business as Usual on Napster

    HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 4, 2001 -- Despite reports on Friday that Napster would voluntarily implement new screening technologies to filter copyright-protected material, it appeared to be business as usual on the site this weekend.

    Hoping to avoid a court order that could put the company out of business altogether, Napster offered on Friday to block user access to what could amount to millions of files. "We will begin later this weekend to block the transfer of file names we have previously received from copyright holders, consistent with the 9th Circuit's ruling," Napster's CEO, Hank Barry, said in a statement on Friday.

    Major record labels, music publishers, and bands like Metallica and Dr. Dre, who oppose Napster, submitted some 5,600 songs they wanted removed from the service. But according to The Hollywood Reporter and user reports, many of the songs, if not all of them, were






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