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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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