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Create ads, write public service announcements, and develop other means to market Career Center events. Excellent experience for people interested in marketing/public relations. Must be deadline oriented. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products and PageMaker. If you are interested please contact: Pat Alexander @ 845-5139 http://careercenter.tamu.edu Texas A&M Career Center 209 Koldus 845-5139 AGGIELIFE Page 6 THE BATTALION Friday, Mi) Metallica delivers list of allege music pirates to online firm day. May 5,2000 SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — In a clash between hard rock and hard drives, the band Metallica has de livered the names of 335,000 people it accuses of mu sic piracy to the online company it says aided the theft. Drummer Lars Ulrich helped wheel in 60,000 pages of documents Wednesday he said proves the band’s music has been traded illegally using Napster Inc. software. “Napster will review the over 300,000 fan names that Metallica turned in as soon as possible. If the claims are submitted properly, the company will take the ap propriate actions to disable the users Metallica has iden tified,” Napster attorney Laurence Pulgram said. Metallica said the alleged violations of its music were monitored and logged by NetPD, a computer consulting firm that found thousands of Napster users making Metallica songs available from April 28-30. Ulrich suggested the music traders were cowards, using high technology for low-down theft even as some fans broke their Metallica CDs and others waved anti-recording industry banners outside Nap ster headquarters. “If they want to steal Metallica’s music, instead of hiding behind their compiiters in their bedrooms and dorm rooms, then just go down to Tower Records and grab them off the shelves,” Ulrich said. Napster has been at the center of the debate over online music and copyright law since it launched soft ware that allows users to open their hard drives to oth er people who are online at the same time and swap whatever music files they have stored in the popular MP3 digital format. Because Napster officials say the service does not di rectly provide the copyrighted music — only the means to get it — the company claims its service is legal. Napster’s founder, 19-year-old Shawn Fanning, is sued a statement saying: “I’m a huge Metallica fan and therefore really sorry that they're going in this direction. If we got the opportunity to explain to the band why Napster exists and why fans enjoy Napster, perhaps we could bring all of this to a peaceful conclusion.” Metallica is suing Napster in federal court to block users of its file-sharing software from accessing the band’s music via the company’s computer servers in San Mateo. The band accused Napster of copyright infringe ment and racketeering. “What we’re doing is giving Napster the infor mation they thought we couldn’t get them, which is basically real people downloading Metallica master songs,” Ulrich said. Bay Area-based Metallica was once known for free concerts before fervent fans, but its public cause is, more and more, to stamp out online music trading. “1 have sympathy in the sense that if a ton of money was at stake for me, I might act like*this also,” said Marc Brown, a musician who watched Ulrich's press conference. “But, objectively, I don’t think that they deserve any sympathy.” Some better known musicians disagree with Metallica’s suit. Rapper Chuck D said Napster and other file- sharing programs are ways for musicians to reach out to fans. “Some artists have spoken out against Nap ster,” the rapper wrote in a letter to the New York Times published April 29. “But I believe that artists should welcome Napster. We should think of it as a new kind of radio — a promotional tool that can help artists who don’t have the opportu® their music played on mainstream radio or on V In an online chat session Tuesday, Metal singer James Hetfield defended turning Metallica traders’ names — many of whom band’s fans — to Napster. “We are going after Napster, the main ant the people doing illegal things here, whetherw: or bad intentions, we are not going after ini; fans. Metallica has always felt fans are Transfer of power A new generation ol computer programs is revolutionizing the way people share songs and other taj Internet Napster and GnuteHa are two variations ot the programs that have flouted copyright Stanton riled major record labels, but they work In ditterent ways. One searches through central servers ... A user logs onto the The user connects Napster community to one ot Napster's by going online and main servers, launching Napster. which adds the songs on the user's hard drive Jj to a database ot . songs from other " s connected users. f—: ... the other connects you directly to other users. Gnutella cuts out the middle man. When a user goes online and opens Gnutella, the program sends out a packet of information — a scout that linds hosts, or other computers, on the Internet running Gnutella. When the scout finds a host, it asks how many other computers it knows ot running Gnutella and then connects to them.This network expands exponentially, creating a web of users and a massive, real-time catalog ol shareable files. searches its caaiii returns results. aSw; usertodownkwit Sources Napster Inc ; wego com Celebrities boost ratings of‘Millionair NEW YORK (AP) — Rosie O’ Donnell and Drew Carey both walked away from “Who Wants to Be a Mil lionaire” with $500,000 for charity. But ABC isn’t complaining. The network is more interested in some other figures, the ones showing record-breaking numbers of people watching this week to see how celebri ties perform on the hot seat. Monday’s first celebrity edition of “Millionaire” drew 35.8 million view ers, the most ever to watch the gam^ show, even though 3.5 million Time Warner subscribers were unable to get it on cable because of the company’s dispute with ABC. Indications from sample markets are that Tuesday’s edition did even bet ter, though final Nielsen Media Re search numbers weren’t in. For the first time, “Millionaire” had more viewers than all of the com peting shows on CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and the WB combined, said Marc Berman, an analyst . for Mediaweek.com. “The show is unbelievable,” Berman said. Carey was the big winner the first two nights, earning $500,000 for his charity, the Ohio Library Foundation. He declined a chance to risk his winnings on the $1 million question: Which football star was the first to film a commercial for Disney World? The answer: Phil Simms. O’Donnell, the show’s most vocal celebrity backer, matched Carey by picking up a $500,000 check for her charity, the For All Kids Foundation, on Wednesday night. She walked a high wire, correctly guessing that Agnes de Mille was the choreographer for “Oklahoma,” that the Fields Medal honored excellence in mathematics and that Beethoven planned to dedicated his Third Sym phony to Napoleon. But faced with the million-dollar question — about what degree play wright Anton Chekhov earned at the University of Moscow — she decided to pass because she didn’t know the an swer was medicine. “I don’t think I could 'risk it,” she said, “because that’s too much money.” Surfing the wave of popularity, ABC scheduled 17 nights of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” for the 24 nights in May’s ratings sweeps. This week it added No. 18, a spe cial behind-the-scenes peek at making the show, and audaciously scheduled it for May 18 opposite the season fi nale of “ER.” When first approached about doing a celebrity “Millionaire” series, exec utive producer Michael Davies ques tioned whether it would work. He believes one reason the show is so appealing is the notion that any av erage American could win. Davies went ahead with the celebri ties because, with the show on at least three nights a week, he needed* thing to keep things fresh. “What was very clear wl started to book the show was thusiasm the celebrities that s had for the program,” he said.' that enthusiasm would be infect He is planning a secondcc week for November. O’Donnell is almost certaii back, and probably Regis Philbil^ senator Dana Carvey will, too,!); Philbin has also suggested! “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestants who already are it aires, he said. It would be forcli With “Millionaire” sofarW ous to oversaturation, Daviessai; n’t concerned that the showneee! to keep interest up. He is more worried about! ability to get rest. “1 think this show is stilli very powerful brand, and 1 thirl^ last few nights have proven it, Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we will never he the same. 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