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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
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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 ...
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Napster community to one ot Napster's
by going online and main servers,
launching Napster. which adds the
songs on the
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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;
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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.
Kira Bailey
Lisa Haglund
Valerie Ramsower
Paige Bell
Rebecca Harper
Lauren Reese
Erin Bentley
Emily Hayter
Erin Richardson
Rebecca Brock
Amy Herndon
Mary Rison
Kelly Brown
Meredith Hill
Kelly Rothermel
Christie Caldwell
Sara Hyde
Sarah Seidel
Suzi Castillo
Laura Ingle
Caroline Smith
Claire Castleberry
Keli King
Shanna Standley
Elizabeth Cronin
Jill Lewis
Kristin Stockton
Emily Curtis
Jana Little
Pam Stover
Carolyn Davis
Metedith Ltebbehusen
Vanessa Tocatjian
Mandy Dotson
kina Mallory
Tara Toliver
Becky Drake
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Christi Drake
Melanie McIntosh
Senna Woest
Lindsay Elder
Tara Moody
Lindsay Yeager
Corrie Goddard
Paige Moore
Lauren Gould
Kelly Powers
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congratulations to
our Seniors.
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