Entertainment Firms Target Gnutella

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The entertainment industry, which finally appears to be getting its way in the Napster case, is now going after a new and more elusive online target: the Gnutella file-sharing system, Friday’s Wall Street Journal reported.

In recent weeks, Napster Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., has installed increasingly effective systems for keeping copyrighted music off its site, to the point where once widely available songs are unavailable and where Napster usage is, as a result, plummeting.


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