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IP: Stanford pirate allegedly pirates a pirate (no honor among thieves?)
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:48:45 -0400
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:35:48 -0800 From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> From a friend:... Napster seems to sing a different tune when its own property is involved ... Napster, which portrays itself as a champion of youth culture and the Web's freewheeling ways, applies a double standard to intellectual property, making it cavalier toward other people's, but hyperprotective of its own. ... Some have tried to figure out the workings of Napster's internal protocols on their own. One of them, David Weekly, a Stanford University student, put a version of them on his personal Web site. Soon, he received an electronic message from Napster demanding that he take it down. ... "Napster is treating its database as its private property," complains Mr. Powell. "But it's not Napster's property. It's a list of pirated music." ... While they stand to profit handsomely from their stake, not everyone wants their links to Napster known; one investor pleaded that his involvement in the company not be revealed, lest the controversy over Napster hurt his other business deals. <http://www.msnbc.com/p/cnbc/437756.asp?bt=cnbc>
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