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[FYI] Pointera: Like Napster, But Legal



http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,17067,00.html

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Pointera: Like Napster, But Legal  

SpinFrenzy.com's new division lets you swap files, but protects 
copyrights.  

by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World Fusion June 7, 2000, 9:27 a.m. 
PT  

Napster rival SpinFrenzy.com has created a separate division called 
Pointera to license its file-sharing service to Web publishers and 
portals that want to let their users swap information with each 
other, instead of retrieving it from a central server.   

But unlike Napster, Pointera offers a content filtering service that 
lets Web sites enforce copyright laws. With the Pointera service, Web 
sites can screen out particular file names or categories of files and 
prevent users from swapping them.   

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