Legal status of mp3-sharing programs?

Factual Questions
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Ok, so Napster is dead. But mp3-sharing lives on in programs like Morpheus, Audiogalaxy, etc. From what I’ve seen of those services, the pickings are just as good – and in some cases better – as Napster in its heyday. Yeah, they filter out many copyrighted titles, but that is (ahem) easily worked around.

And yet…I haven’t seen a single news story about these post-Napster programs, even before 9/11 when all “trivial” news stories went down the toilet. RIAA v. Napster was one of the biggest stories of 1999-2000, but after Napster went away, so did the news coverage.

So I’m wondering, is anyone suing these companies? And if so, why hasn’t it been reported? (I suppose Metallica is out of it since they don’t have a world tour to promote right now…)

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If you didn’t know this thread will be closed as soon as a mod or admin sees it - it might be closed before I hit the submit button. The simple answer is they will get sued as soon as they become popular enough and the RIAA finds somebody to sue (many are decenteralized).

The RIAA might go after IPS’s for providing access - I don’t know if that will fly and if it does it will mean a much diffrent internet then we have not.

Check cnet dot com.

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Also if you carefully word your question to not include the name of any of the nap… alternates (or links) it might have a better chance of not being locked.