Napster alters software

Music software company Napster said it has blocked 317,377 user screen names that have been identified by Metallica as allegedly infringing on the rock band's copyrights.



"Napster has taken extraordinary steps to comply with Metallica's demands to block hundreds of thousands of its fans from using the Napster system," Fenwick & West attorney Lawrence Pulgram, who represents Napster, said in a statement today. "Napster has always stated that it would act in response to notice from copyright holders, and it has lived up to that commitment in good faith."