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USC backs napster



headbangers holiday at USC. metalheads at Yale left in the cold.

USC stands by Napster 
By The Associated Press
Special to CNET News.com
April 24, 2000, 8:55 a.m. PT
URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1750409.html 

LOS ANGELES--The University of Southern California says it will not join
other schools in blocking students' access to the popular Napster Web
site, which lets people swap music.

The university made the announcement Friday in response to a lawsuit filed
by heavy metal rock band Metallica, which named USC, Yale University and
Indiana University as defendants, accusing the schools of encouraging
students to pirate copyrighted music.

Yale and Indiana were dropped from the action after announcing they would
block access to the Napster site. USC issued a statement Friday saying it
will permit its students access to Napster "only for demonstrably legal
purposes from designated university personal computers and under
university supervision."

A school attorney, Carol Mauch, said the Napster site contains some
applications that "are clearly legal, such as the chat rooms focused on
various styles of music."

Mauch denied the lawsuit's claim that the school allows illegal trade of
copyrighted material to flourish.

Napster's Web site and software let people open their hard drives to other
people who are online at the same time and swap music files they have
stored in the popular MP3 digital format.

The Napster site has been so popular on college campuses that some banned
its use because students' downloads were clogging the schools' computer
networks.

Copyright  2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
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