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Of the road are the same online

as they are offline.

And sends a strong

message to others

That they cannot build a

business based on other's

Copyrighted works

without permission.

Have you heard from metallica?

[Laughs]

I have not. But i"m sure that

they are very pleased

And i'm sure that they and dr.

Dre take great comfort

In the court's decision today.

'Cause until napster gets

its day in court

If this injunction is not

stayed it will obviously

Have a very severe effect on

napster service.

So you will seek a stay?

Then obviously?

I still find it difficult,

certainly a bit shocking

Uh, some things

happened this week

That i was certainly not

expecting to have

To deal with.

Napster fights for survival.

Front page of cnn.

This is horrible.

The ninth circuit issued an order, it

was only like two sentences and it said...

this is a case of

first impression,

It's the first time we've ever

seen a case like this.

And we're gonna stay

the enforcement

'Til such time as we, the

ninth circuit,

Have had a chance to

look at the case.

Lawyers representing napster

And the recording industry

Squared off before a

three judge panel.

At the ninth circuit

court of appeals

In san francisco.

And what the supreme court

was saying is you

Can't take a snapshot and say,

How is it being used today?

What you've gotta ask is what is

what is it capable

Of being used for?

Because otherwise, you're gonna

deprive the public

Of something that can be used

For non-Infringing uses.

They designed it to be a

pirate system.

No, they designed it

for fair use.

Samples?

No, no sir.

Oh they designed it for

concert work.

That the authors really

Don't care about a copyright.

Even though they have it out on

a, on a, on a recording.

That's what they tell us.

- No that isn't...

- I've read their brief

That may be what they tell

you now, your honor,

But they tell you...

anything on mp3 file goes

through the napster system

Or does it go user to user

on a direct basis?

It doesn't go through the

napster system...

you know, their hand,

their fingerprints,

You can't find them on those

things, can you?

The fingerprints you can't find

Because napster

doesn't want you to.

They don't touch 'em. They never

have anything to do with it.

My fellow in new jersey, and

my fellow in guam

Will have a direct connection

On the internet, right?

And that's how the music

is transmitted.

It is transmitted on the

internet and we are not

Trying to stop the internet,

certainly.

That hearing ended about a

half an hour ago,

Here in san francisco. No

ruling from the court

Is expected at lest for

another month,

But after that ruling

does come down,

Many observers believe

that the final word

On napster will

eventually and ultimately

End up coming from the us

supreme court.

I worked on several

presidential campaigns.

And i would say that the

pressure that shawn

And hank had on them

was just as much

As it would be on a

presidential candidate.

With the difference being

That they weren't asking for it.

Either one of them.

[Music]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is

very exciting day

An element of this alliance

is that napster

Today, for napster,

for bertelsmann.

Will develop something like

[inaudible] services.

Middelhoff was a very

genuine guy.

He had great energy and he

really believed in it.

And was trying to do

the right thing.

Took a big risk in getting

involved, especially given

The relationship that

bertelsmen had with bmg.

That being said, it was

incredibly complex deal.

It was a ton of money.

None of them really,

none of them

Did get the conviction or let me

say, did learn that

The business model and

still existing

Business model of the

music industry,

Isn't working anymore.

Yeah, and i think this was

clear in 2000, 2001,

When you saw how people

did use napster.

I think this would have

changed the world

Much more than facebook

is doing today.

Just the fact that this huge

german media conglomerate

Was coming in and gonna be

throwing some money

That i might be working for

a few more months.

So i felt okay about that.

I think that that,

That mindset was the

company's mindset.

They were weird, it was

a survival game

At that point. It was just, it,

it seemed wrong.

Everything seemed wrong.

There was a line crossed where

they were no longer

Actually trying to make

a cool product.

We were just trying to survive.

Whatever it was, we were just

trying to find a way

To survive.

We developed a new

business model

For membership based service

Going forward in the future.

And uh, we give money to napster

To develop that model, to

implement it, and then

We're gonna join them

and we all hope,

And we're gonna work

jointly on this,

To make that happen as

soon as possible.

That's why shawn has to get

back to california

To get his cap on and start

decoding again.

Couldn't you preclude a search

under certain song

Names and if you can do that

Doesn't that suggest that

your efforts to stop

The trading of copyrighted

music is disingenuous?

No, because we have not

been able, ever,

To work anything out with

the plaintiffs.

They simply refuse to talk,

refuse to cooperate.

In any effort to solve

this problem.

No, because, because

you're never going to

Come up with a search that's

gonna satisfy them.

[Beeping]

We had an entire row of

computers dedicated to

Temps who just sat there, coming

up with variations

On artists names, that

needed to be blocked

So madonna was one and you know,

So it was basically this

whack the mole game.

Blockage is bad.

Motherfucking alias names

like limp hashbrown,

In suck, flu fighters,

pappa crotch,

Dick see chicks and

crotch box 20.

When the effort went from you

know, trying to make

It a successful service and make

the product better,

To trying to uh, play this

game of whack a mole,

It was kind of you know,

foreshadowing

Of a, what was to come.

Hopefully be able to show

to them that we do

Support napster and we do

believe in a cause.

And that basically, the

music's out there.

I mean they can't erase all

the mp3s that i have

And all the mp3s that tons of

millions and millions of people...

dedicated online music fans

maybe planning to

Spend a hard day's night at

their computers.

Downloading free songs

Through the popular

napster website.

A san francisco federal court

made it clear today

The times they are a changin'

It's been a somber week

For fans of copyright

infringement.

As a federal court judge ordered

Popular file sharing service,

napster,

To remove millions of

songs that are owned

By the major record labels.

Record companies fought

tooth and nail

Over the issue and the

court's agreed.

It's the record companies

who hold the patent

On cheating musicians

out of money.

American intellectual property

Is our nation's

greatest trade asset.

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