Napster to Offspring.."better keep em seperated"

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From: Tom Whore (tomwhore@inetarena.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 08:42:09 PDT

WEll napster has shot itself in the last foot it had left to stand
on.....By BY napster...Which is all well and good, seeing as it outlived
its usefullness by one CEO:)-

Onward gnutella, freenet, and whatever. 

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Napster Tells Offspring To Stop Selling Bootleg Merchandise Software
company issues cease and desist order to pop-punk band. Contributing
Editor Richard B. Simon reports: Napster Inc., makers of controversial MP3
file-sharing software, slapped pop-punk band the Offspring with a legal
order Friday (June 2) to stop selling merchandise imprinted with the
Napster logo, a source close to the band confirmed. A day earlier, another
source in the Offspring camp said that if Napster issued a cease and
desist order, it would "expose a huge hypocrisy." Napster Inc. is
embroiled in a series of lawsuits filed by hard-rockers Metallica, rapper
Dr. Dre and the Recording Industry Association of America that claim the
company is infringing on artists' copyrights by allowing users to freely
trade near-CD-quality MP3 files of their work without permission.

Napster Tells Offspring To Stop Selling Bootleg Merchandise Software
company issues cease and desist order to pop-punk band. Contributing
Editor Richard B. Simon reports: Napster Inc., makers of controversial MP3
file-sharing software, slapped pop-punk band the Offspring with a legal
order Friday (June 2) to stop selling merchandise imprinted with the
Napster logo, a source close to the band confirmed. A day earlier, another
source in the Offspring camp said that if Napster issued a cease and
desist order, it would "expose a huge hypocrisy." Napster Inc. is
embroiled in a series of lawsuits filed by hard-rockers Metallica, rapper
Dr. Dre and the Recording Industry Association of America that claim the
company is infringing on artists' copyrights by allowing users to freely
trade near-CD-quality MP3 files of their work without permission.

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?genreNameForDisplay=Rock&genreDirectoryName=rock&id=971590

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