Napster Shuts Down

GoldenBear

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...temoporarily.

http://www.electic.com/cgi-bin/news/News/Stories/2001/07/03/994190549.shtml

"A Napster representative said Monday that problems with a music
database forced the Redwood City, Calif., company to turn off the new
service, called version 2.0 beta 10.3. Napster declined to estimate when
the service would be operating again.

"File transfers have been temporarily suspended while Napster upgrades
the databases that support our new file identification technology," a
note on the company's Web service said. "Keep checking this space for
updates."

Napster launched the new version of its song-swapping service last week
in order to better comply with a court injunction that requires the
startup to prevent users from sharing copyrighted music. The major
record labels sued Napster in December 1999 for infringing on copyrights
and won the injunction in March."
 

zimu

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Jun 15, 2001
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they should make it permanent...
napster just has had its days, they should shut down before it becomes a joke.
 

kami

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Oct 9, 1999
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Napster already IS a joke. Nobody uses it. Long live MusicCity!
 

HYD

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I tried accessing www.napster.com last night and it was down.

I stopped using Napster ever since they put up those good filters. RIP Napster!