Judge Keeps Heat on Napster

No matter what napster do it will never be the same as it was before,And by the way the gap is already filled up by other filesharing programs.

Napster plans to appeal a crushing decision handed down by a federal judge that keeps the company offline until it can perfect its song-swapping system.

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel shot down the notion that Napster could quietly come back online without 100 percent effectiveness in its song-screening technology after an injunction that it remove all copyright music.

Napster told Patel in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that it could promise more than 99 percent effectiveness. But Patel demanded 100 percent compliance to keep infringing music out of the hands of music fans used to trading the songs for free.

That means Napster will need to delay a comeback after being offline for more than a week.

The court's ruling today that Napster must block all file transfers threatens all peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet and is at direct odds with the 9th Circuit's ruling.

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Source: Wired

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