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Music Fans Scramble to Download Napster Files Ahead of Injunction Deadline

Aired July 28, 2000 - 11:45 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A lot of music fans not happy about what might happen at midnight to the site Napster where they've been downloading and sharing a bunch a music. A federal judge has decided that the song-sharing company infringes on copyrights.

Let's bring in our interactive correspondent Allison Tom who's standing by at CNN Interactive, appropriately enough.

ALLISON TOM, CNN INTERACTIVE CORRESPONDENT: Very appropriate.

KAGAN: Allison, first of all, explain to us what could and might happen to Napster at midnight Pacific time?

TOM: Well, obviously what could happen, Daryn, is that it could get shut down. What that means is that Napster's server would go off- line and users would not be able to access music -- copyrighted files, that is -- on their servers.

That is, of course, anticipating a lot of people to go on-line. And you can see there's a lot of activity happening right now. On Napster's Web site, there has been a huge amount of people trying to get as much files and as many songs as they possibly can as fast as they can.

It's not also just Napster. We found that a number of other sites -- these are alternative sites where people can get music. iMesh is one of them. Another one is Gnutella. People are also flocking in huge numbers trying to get music from these sites. Gnutella, in fact, had to shut down their servers for a short period of time in order to increase their bandwidth so that more and more people could get onto their Web site, and that's really showing the huge amount of people that are really going online trying to get music.

One other site, too, Scour.com, which is here, people are going here getting not just music, but also other files that have movie files as well as images.

Now, industry analysts say that this reaction is, of course, natural and very much expected if Napster is going to be forced to shut down and take rid of or get rid of their software from their Internet service. You'll see that a number of music fans will still go online in search of finding their files. Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: Well, Allison, that's the interesting thing. It's like the genie is out of the bottle. They can shut down Napster, but you just go to a number of other places where you can download things -- even more things than just music.

TOM: That's right, and that's really what's opening up the other issue here, is it's not just music, is that, in fact, you're right, the genie is out of the box and there's going to have to be some really innovative ways to keep that under control. Like I mentioned, some of these alternative sites, they offer what's called a P2P or a peer-to-peer networking service where people can use their computer, individual computers one-on-one, and link them up to others.

So it's very difficult to control and it's something a lot of people will keep a close eye on.

KAGAN: Let's say this goes ahead and Napster is shut down at midnight, then someone tries to log on. What will they see? They probably won't be able to see much. They'll obviously be able to access the Napster Web site because the Web site itself is not going to be taken off-line. But what they will find is that the server, or the one that's actually accessing the information and hooking up the directory to these other music file, they will not be able to access that information.

KAGAN: All right, Allie Tom, thank you very much. Good to see you.

ALLISON: Thanks.

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