I guess nothing terrible will happean to the our deared Internet baby -
although napster might die. There are a plenty of napster-clones out there
- i guess the next development will be some kind of "napster of
napsters-relatives",
and by trying to close down that kind of services (that permit individual
users find other users that have files that they are interested in) will
be something  like a bid to shut down the Internet itself.

There sill be many more or less open communities with some kind of data
exchange between them and ever changing strategies how to identify 'mate'
users and filter out recording industry agents (fake users) and their
bots.

jg

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Garrett Lynch wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I am really surprised to see absolutely no postings as of yet about the
> supreme court ruling in America giving Napster 3 days to stop distribution
> of all music that is protected by copywrite.
>
> I find this a terrible decision which will have effects though out the
> internet and beyond, yet beyond that what i find even more scandalous is the
> fact that an American Supreme court feels it has the right to make this
> ruling which will have effect throughout the world.
>
> Please please please do something in the next three days to help show your
> support for Napster by posting to Napster at
> http://www.napster.com/speakout/index.html
> or here by expressing what you think.
>
> Later
> Garrett Lynch


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