[FYI] Could ISPs end up paying for Gnutella's sins?

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

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Could ISPs end up paying for Gnutella's sins?  

by Ryan Tate  

June 12, 2001  

It is costing Napster a pretty penny to enforce copyrights on its 
network. Just to create the necessary filters, it has licensed 
technology from three companies and bought a fourth.  

Now, everyone else on the Internet may have to ante up for copyright 
enforcement, as well. As Napster's popularity wanes and the 
distributed Gnutella networks grow, Internet service providers are 
under growing pressure to clamp down on alleged peer-to-peer music 
piracy.  

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