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Napster bans Manic Street Preachers swaps

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

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.

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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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