IP: At a secret location, British internet pirates are plotting to bring down the world music business

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From: "James J. O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
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> At a secret location, British internet pirates are plotting to bring down
the world music business

By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor


2 June 2000

A renegade team of British programmers has begun a project that could
destroy the music business. They aim to develop a program to let millions of
internet users swap MP3 music files without detection, undermining the
industry's financial base.

The two-man team in their project called "Metallicster", are trying to write
a program building on the success of the "Napster" software, developed by a
company of the same name in San Mateo, California. The Napster software is
used by millions of people around the world to swap MP3 music files.