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Re: Napster Puts Users In Legal Jeopardy

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From: Tommy the Terrorist
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <nW4k4.52651$Lf2.1428826@news6.giganews.com> Dusty Rhodes,
terra@SPAMVOID.texas.net writes:
>Some time ago I claimed here that Napster was putting users in serious legal
>jeopardy. Here's a much better explanation than mine:

This is ridiculous.  All that this says is that Napster is not an
anonymous
remailer, which to the best of my knowledge it never claimed to be.

Anybody who assumes that anything on the Net is anonymous, even
when it says it is, is being overly gullible.  The New World Order doesn't
tolerate that kind of thing.  Napster never even misled anyone on the
point, so why rag on them?  You send a file somewhere... you know
where it went.  You ask someone for a file... you know where you sent
the request.

"With our product, when you transfer from point to point, the
IP address is available to you," said Eddie Kessler, Napster's
vice president of engineering. "It's something that a hacker
might have access to. In most cases, tracing an individual user
would not be possible, but it is possible."
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From: Tommy the Terrorist <mayday@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Napster Puts Users In Legal Jeopardy
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