ManOWar submitte that another group has asked Napster to block users that have illegaly download their songs:
Manic Street Preachers fans have had their Napster accounts blocked. Some have been swapping tracks from the band's forthcoming album Know Your Enemy on the site. |
The band's label Sony plans to launch a breach of copyright lawsuit.
Fans attempting to access Napster were greeted with a message telling them their accounts had been blocked because they'd infringed Sony's copyright by copying and swapping unreleased material.
The message read: "Your Napster account has been blocked pursuant to a Notification of Alleged Infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed against you by Sony Music Entertainment UK.
"The allegation is that material you have made available through the Napster service contains one or more recordings whose copyrights are owned by Sony Music UK and that your making these available infringes Sony Music UK's copyrights.
"The material at issue is from an album by Manic Street Preachers entitled Know Your Enemy, including the recordings So Why So Sad and Found That Soul, all of which were unreleased at the time we received the DMCA Notification from Sony Music UK."
Manics fans who have had their accounts blocked are angry at the move.
Source: http://www.ananova.com/news
