Court expected to shut Napster down March 2nd

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posted 02-28-2001 05:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for KennyLee        Edit/Delete Message

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/news.php3?id=02272001b

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Court expected to shut Napster down March 2nd.
by Richard Menta, MP3newswire.net

For those who are frantically downloading everything you can off of Napster before the courts shut it down, your new deadline date is next Friday. That is when U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has set the next hearing date for the troubled company.

On March 2nd, Patel will modify the preliminary injunction she handed down last July that was to have shut down Napster during the course of its trial against the major music labels.

Patel, who said the company had "created the monster," saw a halt put on her order until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals investigated further. Last week, a three-judge panel from the court agreed with Patel declaring that the service can be held and an injunction against Napster was "not only warranted but required".

The panel also gave Napster a little more time when they ruled that Patel's original injunction was too broad and gave it back with instructions to retool it. It appears the expedient Patel has completed the modified injunction, satisfying the higher court's requirements for closing the service in just over a week. If Patel does shut down Napster, the service will most likely be given several working days to comply with the order before it ceases operations.

Napster has already filed a request for the rehearing with the full U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse that courts panel decision. If granted, it will give Napster more time.

If not, Napster may be closed for the duration of its upcoming trial. That will leave 60+ million users searching the Net for viable alternatives. They are out there, but services like Gnutella and Freenet don't scale as well as Napster and may be overwhelmed by the onslaught of disconnected Napster users.

We may also see an overseas Napster clone emerge, an identical service that is in a country beyond the reach of US copyright laws. One hasn't come up yet, but Napster's closing could spawn dozens of them by year's end.

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60 million users with no Napster. A powerful force. Roaming the landscape in anger. Black Friday. Hmmm...need to leave a note for more tuna and condensed milk.

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posted 02-28-2001 09:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Snake Crew        Edit/Delete Message

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posted 02-28-2001 12:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KennyLee        Edit/Delete Message

So we can move this issue to the next level quicker.

Myself, I just want to see what 60 million Napster users do when there is no Napster.

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posted 02-28-2001 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Snake Crew        Edit/Delete Message

IMHO I don't think the record labels want Napster to exist period.
If there is to be swapping it will be done at their convience not force fed to them as mp3.com found out.
The sleeping giant is wide awake now.

Also now there are tons of virus going out on the clone sites.

We'll just see who wins this war of attrition, and you know who I'm going to bet on.

I'll also make this clear the dot.com built up the nasdaq and now they are taking it back down to 0.

You're precious OMD dot com fantasy is fucking over give it up its finished its through, believe me you'll get no fucking where so fast it will make your head spin.

The revolution is over it failed miserably what a joke.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Losers, suckers you fell for a myth.

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posted 02-28-2001 08:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KennyLee        Edit/Delete Message

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Originally posted by Snake Crew:
The revolution is over it failed miserably what a joke.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Losers, suckers you fell for a myth.

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posted 02-28-2001 08:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Snake Crew        Edit/Delete Message

The dot.com ipo days took it way up then
they all failed down down down it's going down down.

So Kenny you have so much faith.

Man get rooted in reality the only reason Napster is working is because it is pop music for free.

I'm afraid your powers of prediction are friggin worthless(optimistic idiot nothing has changed)
hey I got a great Idea go promote yourself on some failed OMD's BB that will get you famous and sell tons of records for sure(not)

http://www.jesus.com/[/URL]

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posted 02-28-2001 10:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KennyLee        Edit/Delete Message

As far as Nasdaq, Rene? The stocks were overvalued. "Irrational Exuberance"
Buying overvalued stocks is bad business. I try not to do it. But the tech sector is still there. Just finding the proper level is all.

As far as OMD's? Bad management. Doesn't matter if it's tech or automobiles or toilet paper design. Bad management will sink any company. MP3.com should have brought in a pro team shortly after the IPO.

So anyhow, Rene, it seems to me that you are looking at things which happen every day in every business sector and saying "The World Will End Tomorrow"

The End Is Not Near, Rene. Hell, we ain't even through the beginning yet.

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posted 03-01-2001 09:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Snake Crew        Edit/Delete Message

My job is to insure "The Snake" produces what needs to be produced until we check out.

This Internet faux paux is exactly that the laughing stock of my industry.

Idiots wise up.

Better raise some promo $ because you ain't going to make make it due to some Bulletin Board.

Laugh at you.

My world is far from ending.

The Internet sector is what brought the Nasdaq to it's knees.

Over valued or not it's going down..down...down..down...down, and then all your precious OMD's will be finished off real nice and neat.

Say Goodbye to Hollywood Kenny.

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posted 03-01-2001 11:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for KennyLee        Edit/Delete Message

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Originally posted by Snake Crew:
The Internet sector is what brought the Nasdaq to it's knees.

Over valued or not it's going down..down...down..down...down, and then all your precious OMD's will be finished off real nice and neat.

Say Goodbye to Hollywood Kenny.

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I'm ready for my screen test, Mr. DeMille.

Aw, you just ramblin' now, El Brujo. But in your own way you are showing that the end is not near.

Everything is settling down for the next wave.

The Nasdaq will find a bottom. The low overhead Peer to Peer sector is expanding rapidly. Bandwidth is increasing. Processing Power is increasing. Personal Storage Space is infinite with cheap blank CD-Rs and huge Hard Drives. Convergence of TV and the web is just around the corner.

Have you signed up at www.copyright.net yet?

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