An MP3 Update

There's been a number of things happening of late in the MP3 world - first off, MP3.com has complied with the Federal Court ruling by silencing (their term) major label albums. They're still including classical and indie tracks, but not much major label stuff. Also, ZD is carrying a story about Dr. Dre gearing up to ask Napster to ban users a la Metallica. I also got an e-mail from folks at SpeakOut who are trying to help out people hit by the Metallica/Napster deal - so, if you got banned check it out.

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Re:Text of email sent to members

[DrEldarion]

We will continue our efforts to restore your music as soon as possible

I *love* the way they phrased that. Restore your music. The RIAA needs to realize this... It's *OUR* music, let us listen to it the way we want, damnit.

-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.

Napster using DMCA to evade Metallica

[ardran]

This article at Salon summarizing this message from Napster -- Napster is using DMCA as a defense! Users who were fingered by Metallica are allowed under DMCA (assuming, that is, you count napster as an ISP) to submit a counternotification is they think they were incorrectly identified as copyright infringers. Unless Metallica pursues legal action against those individuals within ten days of the receipt of the counternotification, Napster must reinstate them!

Metallicster

[mischief]

A colleague pointed me to this article on The Register - looks like there's now a napster clone specifically for finding Metallica music! Check it out: http://metallicster.freeservers.com/.

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