The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is filing a
complaint in court next week alleging that Napster has failed to
comply with the terms of the recent injunction issued against it
that ordered the file sharing service to block specified songs.
Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the RIAA, said: “At this point
it’s pretty clear that Napster is not complying with the court
order.”
Napster denies the allegation. It has put basic filtering
systems in place, but claims that the record companies are not
fulfilling their duties under the injunction. They were ordered to
provide Napster with the file names of infringing works on
Napster’s service; instead, Napster says they have only provided
artist and title details.
Napster claims it has blocked 1.3 million file names since the
injunction was passed. However, users are still accessing the songs
they want by using misspellings in artist and title details. Some
are using third party software interfaces that encrypt and decrypt
file names.
