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[A]ssuming for present purposes that Napster's users are engaged in copyright infringement, their actions would remain infringing even if Section 1008 were applicable to them, since Section 1008 does not purport to address the underlying issue of infringement. And if Section 1008 does not transform the actions of Napster's users into non-infringing uses, then it cannot provide shelter to Napster itself. In invoking Section 1008, Napster has argued that it cannot be liable for contributory or vicarious infringement if its users are not themselves engaged in infringement. Once it is recognized that Section 1008 does not alter whether the consumer uses that it addresses are infringing, Napster's argument falls apart.
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Napster is currently unavailable on the Macintosh operating system. Mac users may consider using Virtual PC, a software product which emulates the Windows operating system on a Macintosh computer. However, please note that reports are mixed on this solution, and it is not supported by Napster. Some have found it to be satisfactory, while others have not.
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Napster denied that its users are engaged in infringement or that its own actions make it liable for contributory or vicarious infringement. In addition, Napster asserted a number of affirmative defenses. Among those is a defense based on Section 1008 of the AHRA. Napster argued that the activities of its users are immunized by Section 1008 and that, as a consequence, Napster itself cannot be held liable for contributory or vicarious infringement.
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An unreleased version of Metallica's "I Disappear," started circulating around the Napster network and was later played on radio stations. This brought the attention of the Napster network to Metallica, and subsequently; they filed a lawsuit in 2000 against the napster service. At the time, the lawsuits were opposed by Napster users and supporters. To them, it seemed that file sharing was inevitable on the Internet, and it was not Napster's fault that people used the service to share copyrighted files. These users viewed Napster as a simple search engine. Many argued that any attempt to shut down Napster would simply lead to people using a different medium to exchange files over the Internet.
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If it found a connection, Napster logged you onto the central server. The main purpose of this central server was to keep an index of all the Napster users currently online and connect them to each other. It did not contain any of the MP3 files.
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Who need a middleman anymore, when Napster gives you the power to download MP3 files directly from another user? Kevin Reichard explains Napster and explains how to implement Napster on your Linux system.
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