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  1. Mar 10th, 2001, 06:29 PM #1
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    Cool

    It's very cool that it isn't (i just downloaded some Chemical Brothers stuff), but I thought Napster had 72 hours from the beginning of the week to prevent copyrighted material being copied. It's working as well as ever...
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  2. Mar 10th, 2001, 06:39 PM #2
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    They had 72 hours to implement protection...they said that they'd only block music that the record companies could prove they own...which will take longer than 72 hours
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  3. Mar 10th, 2001, 07:36 PM #3
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    How long does it take to prove they own something...

    Sony/EMI/other geezer - "This band is signed with us."
    Judge - "Oh okay, well proved."
    Napster - "Damn"

    They're method of doing it is really dodgy though. They couldn't block every possible permiatation of a name, and how symbols could be used for letters, like $p1(e Gir1$ (that is obviously Spice Girls)
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  4. Mar 10th, 2001, 08:09 PM #4
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    True, but how do you do a search that finds "$p1(e Gir1$ " ?
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