Once the almighty napster is nothing like it use to be..
A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online. The ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stays a week-old decision ordering the company to block all song trading through its service, unless it could block 100 percent of the songs that record labels had identified as copyrighted. |
Napster, which is appealing last week's order, had said it could block more than 99 percent of unauthorized songs on its service with new audio fingerprint technology it is testing but could not guarantee 100 percent success.
The appeals court released a terse note Wednesday saying that last week's ruling, made by federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, would be "stayed pending a further order of this court."
That doesn't mean the service will return to its old free-swapping ways, however. Napster is still living under the terms of an original court order that requires it to block songs. The latest version of the software, which everyone on the service now must use, blocks far more songs than the ones identified by the record companies.
Napster would not comment on whether it immediately planned to restart its now-closed service.
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Source: Cnet
