| Grex > Oldmusic > #142: The Fourteenth Napster Item |  |
| The Fourteenth Napster Item | 
Apr 4 06:51 UTC 2003 |
I'm still obsessive; this item is back. Napster the corporation has been destroyed, but the Napster paradigm continues. This is another quarterly installment in a series of weblog and discussion about the deconstruction of the music industry and other copyright industries, with side forays into "intellectual property, freedom of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and evolving technology," as polygon once phrased it. Several years of back items are easily found in the music2 and music3 conferences. Linked between the Agora and Music conferences.
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Apr 4 06:56 UTC 2003 |
The RIAA has sued four college students: two at RPI, one at Princeton and one at Michigan Tech. The complaint is that the students ran a program to make indexes of what was available on their local networks through Microsoft Windows filesharing -- essentially automating the process of looking up this public information. The RIAA compares this to Napster; the Cnet story points out that the students are not providing the software which exchanges the files, as Napster did. Any file trading is done on through the standard Windows software. http://news.com.com/2100-1027-995429.html
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Apr 4 14:20 UTC 2003 |
So, essentially, the RIAA needs to sue Microsoft for writing the Server
Message Block protocol?
Sweet.