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 28.7.2000 SecurityNapster is Going to Shutdown
US San Francisco District Court Judge Marilyn Patel granted an injunction filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), suspending Napster from allowing users to swap copyrighted material from midnight Friday (Pacific Time).

French Napster doit stopper
US le juge Marilyn Patel  du ditrict de San Francisco a admis la plainte de la "Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)", et a ordonné la suspension de Napster de permettre l'échange de matériel protégé par un droit d'auteur à partir de vendredi minuit.

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The record industry welcomes this decision. They also welcome technological advances, but there has to be a balance between these advances and the rewards they generate for artists. For that industry technology like Napster has to be used in a way that is acceptable; and the debate is not about the technology itself but in the way it is used.

The decision will drive users to more underground services, such as the Gnutella open source file sharing system.

Some people tink that  "Closing it [Napster] down is stupid. It just makes the MP3 scene go back underground. It is not difficult to see that this is not going to change anything."

And other people see the future of music were artists will be paid by the advertising on places like Napster, receiving a fee for every download.

Résumé en français

L'industrie du disque saluent cette décision. Ils apprécient également les avancées technologique, mais ils troouvent qu'il doit y avoir un équilibre entre ces avancées et les récompenses des artistes. Les techologies comme Napster doivent être utilisées de manière acceptable. Le débat ne porte pas surt la technologie mais sur la manière de l'utiliser.

Selon les utilisateurs de Napster cela va les conduire vers des services plus "underground" comme Gnutella, qui permet le partage de fichiers source et autres.

Certaines personnes voient le futur de la musique avec une rétribution des artistes sur la base de revenu publicitaire, reçu de la part de site comme Napster.


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