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Napster Report

NPR
Published February 12, 2001 at 10:00 PM MST

A federal appeals court in San Francisco dealt a blow yesterday to Napster, the popular online music-trading software. The court upheld a lower court's ruling that Napster's role in facilitating music-swapping contributes to copyright infringement, even though Napster does not profit from the transactions. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

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