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[FYI] Banned Napster users get second chance
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- Subject: [FYI] Banned Napster users get second chance
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:08:52 +0100
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Banned Napster users get second chance
MP3 fans who have been thrown off the Napster digital music sharing
website have been offered a backdoor way onto the system.
A group of open-source application developers have released a free
software patch that circumvents the ban imposed after complaints from
musicians Metallica and Dr Dre that users were breaching their
copyright.
More than 300,000 users have so far had their Napster accounts
terminated because they have downloaded Dr Dre or Metallica tracks.
Many have found it impossible to re-register because Napster has
modified their Windows registry files to prevent them using the
service.
A patch has been issued by an anonymous group of developers which
resets the Windows registry system to the default setting, thus
erasing the changes made by Napster.
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