At 10:55 PM 5/3/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > -I didn't even mention the fact that metallica got a hold of a weeks worth
>of napster logs and is attempting to go after the end users who dl their
>songs during that week period....4000 people....and they are seeking
>outragious sums...... www.paylars.com if you really feel bad for them
>
>Actually, it wasn't logs -- they hired a firm to search Napster for people
>who were sharing Metallica MP3s. It would be much more difficult to obtain
>logs or discover the people downloading the songs, so they took the simpler
>route of going after those making the songs available.
The probably used a bot. Since bot use is prohibited by Napster they
should have detected it/them and canceled the account.
--Steve
