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Article: NAPSTER AIMS TO BLOCK SOME MUSIC SWAPS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2001
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Napster plans to start filtering copyrighted songs as soon as this
weekend, according to statements made by the company in a California
courtroom yesterday.
At a hearing before US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Napster
attorney David Boies announced that the company was working furiously
to implement a screening system that would block users from trading
specific pirated music files.
Among the first files to be blocked, presumably, will be a list of
5,600 songs submitted to Napster by the major record labels. Songs by
prominent Napster critics, including heavy metal band Metallica and
rap artist Dr. Dre, also are likely to be among the first songs
filtered.
Yesterday's hearing consisted ...