[FYI] Napster bans Manic Street Preachers swaps

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16745.html

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Napster bans Manic Street Preachers swaps  

By: Tony Smith  

Posted: 08/02/2001 at 11:38 GMT  

Manic Street Preachers have become the latest band to find their 
next, unreleased album cropping up on Napster.  

[...]

Napster's response certainly seems rather more rapid than in previous 
demands for users to be exiled for alleged copyright infringement. 
But now it's working with Bertelsmann, the company is keen to be 
rather more friendly with the big labels than it has been in the 
past.  

Bertelsmann bosses recently claimed that come July Napster will have 
song tracking and copyright management technology in place to ensure 
not only that labels receive appropriate royalties for shared songs, 
but that leaks like this one don't happen again.  

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