So let's see how things are going. Napster says it has blocked 275,000 songs now, behind 1.6 million filenames. Not bad. Each song has now 6 names
The music-sharing software company made the claim in the latest round of its tit-for-tat battle with its music industry persecutors. So every time the Recording Industry Association of America claims Napster's not moving quickly enough to follow the court order to block songs owned by RIAA members from being downloads, Napster counters with the allegation that the RIAA isn't providing enough information to allow it to do so. |
The upshot of all this file-blocking activity, said Napster CEO Hank Barry, in a drop of 57 per cent in the number of files available for download at any one time on the Napster network, a slightly larger figure than the one estimated by Internet market researcher Webnoize last week. Barry said the average number of files shared by users has dropped from 198 to just 74.
With so many techniques available (for example our newsposting from several minutes ago) to hide song titles with obscure filenames, it's going to be hard for Napster to block everything.
Source: The Register
