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Judge Silences Napster
Plus: Sabotage Nearly Ruled Out in Concorde Crash and Cash-Strapped Strawberry Ditches Rehab
July 26 —
Napster has hit a sour note in court. A federal judge in San Francisco imposed an injunction on the popular music swapping Web site — saying the online company encourages “wholesale infringement” against music industry copyrights. The injunction will go into effect at midnight Friday, after the nation’s largest record producers post a $5 million bond against any financial losses Napster suffers from being shut down pending trial. In a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel noted that 70 million people are expected to be using Napster by year’s end unless the service is halted. “It is pretty much acknowledged by Napster that this is infringement,” Patel said.
ABCNEWS has learned that officials have all but have ruled out sabotage as a cause of the deadly Air France Concorde crash, after completing their analysis of the doomed jet's flight data recorder. Investigators are now trying to sync up the information from the flight data recorder with the cockpit voice recorder, a process that is expected to take three days. They are concentrating on a last-minute repair ordered by the pilot and a critical engine malfunction.
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