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RIAA SAYS NAPSTER ISN'T PLAYING BALL
Napster is not out of hot water just yet. An RIAA spokesperson told Reuters Thursday that the organization will file a court complaint accusing the file-sharing service of failing to comply with a recently revised injunction requiring the removal of copyrighted songs.
"It's clear that Napster is not complying with the court's order," RIAA spokesperson Jano Cabera told the news service. "We're going to file a noncompliance report to the court next week."
Napster has once again accused the labels of trying to hamper its efforts to block files by submitting inaccurate file names.
OK, here's where the whole situation gets a little silly. Napster is essentially saying that the record companies aren't providing every single variation of a title and artist spelling, and therefore they can't possibly block out all of the requested material. First of all, they can't possibly be expected to think of EVERY possible variation on a song title...It's not reallistic. Napster is still enabling people to swap copyrighted material back and forth.
Let's see, if I follow Napster's dumbass logic, I should be able to distribute big bags of cocaine to people on the streets, but because I'm calling it 'Columbian Happy Powder'...and I won't be doing anything wrong because no one said that distributing 'Columbian Happy Powder' is against the law.
This, my friends, is why Napster is going to lose their fight.
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