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Could ISPs end up paying for Gnutella's sins?

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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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