White House Against Napster
Even the White House is taking the side of the recording industry in the Napster case now, according to ZDNet. All kinds of organizations filed last-minute briefs yesterday against Napster. Besides support from the Clinton administration, the movie industry as well the NBA were offering support to the RIAA in their suit against Napster.
"Permitting Napster to shelter itself behind [the act] would defeat this basic statutory quid pro quo," the White House argued. "Napster's users would be permitted to engage in digital copying and public distribution of copyrighted works on a scale beggaring anything Congress could have imagined ... yet the music industry would receive nothing in return."
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