>An interesting project, but wouldn't labelling your work as if it were actually someone else's be considered copyright infringement as well? I agree with this statement. The persons posting any data, whether it be a bogus mp3 of your wife singing or just noise renamed as an mp3 is doing the EXACT same thing as those persons being "prosecuted" by posting real mp3's. Since all of the music in question is just 1's and 0's, and nobody is going to d/l and verify all of the files on Napster's clients HDD's, arent these people liable to be booted from Napster and / or sued by the record labels for posting ANY data representing the artists music? Whether the mp3 file is the genuine article or not is irrelevant. This certainly may disrupt Napster's activities, but if Lars and his band of merry men decide to turn up the heat, the cuckoo's may have a lawsuit on their hands, or at the very least, be labeled as a pirate and have the ISP cut them off.
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>An interesting project, but wouldn't labelling your work as if it were actually someone else's be considered copyright infringement as well? I agree with this statement. The persons posting any data, whether it be a bogus mp3 of your wife singing or just noise renamed as an mp3 is doing the EXACT same thing as those persons being "prosecuted" by posting real mp3's. Since all of the music in question is just 1's and 0's, and nobody is going to d/l and verify all of the files on Napster's clients HDD's, arent these people liable to be booted from Napster and / or sued by the record labels for posting ANY data representing the artists music? Whether the mp3 file is the genuine article or not is irrelevant. This certainly may disrupt Napster's activities, but if Lars and his band of merry men decide to turn up the heat, the cuckoo's may have a lawsuit on their hands, or at the very least, be labeled as a pirate and have the ISP cut them off.
...but I found it on ca.kernel.org in both full source and patch form.