Category: <span>News</span>

Napster has been issued a temporary stay on the temporary injunction which would have forced it to shut down its servers.

AP: “A federal appeals court panel has granted
Napster a stay allowing the music trading service to stay online at
least temporarily.

“A federal judge had ordered Napster earlier this week to stop
its business of helping people share copyrighted music for free
over the Internet. That preliminary injunction was supposed to have
gone into effect at midnight, Pacific time.”

Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News: “Appeals court says don’t stop the music on Napster

“The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Napster Inc.’s motion to stay a judge’s ruling that could have effectively shut down the song-sharing site. Details to follow.”

CNN.com: “A judge issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday against the online music service Napster, ordering it to stop distributing copyrighted songs.

“U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that Napster “is enjoined from causing, assisting, facilitating, copying, or otherwise distributing all copyrighted songs or musical compositions.'”

Dave Winer asked on Scripting News:

“At 7PM there will be a live webcast from Napster. (Did anyone listen to the webcast? Do you have a URL of the archive? I just get a recording saying it’s over. Is it archived anywhere?)”

It’s here:

Windows Media – 56K
Windows Media – 28K
Real Audio – 56K

The plane had been flying a charter flight for a German travel agency. There were 100 passengers on board, and nine crew members. Four on the ground were also killed.

Full coverage:

MSNBC: “There was no immediate word from officials on what might have caused the crash of the jet, which had been in service since 1980 and had just had a mechanical checkup July 21.”

CNN.com: “Deilmann’s U.S. office, based in Alexandria, Virginia, confirmed that the passengers were scheduled to embark Thursday in New York on a luxury cruise aboard the MS Deutschland. The cruise was scheduled to end on August 8 in Manta, Ecuador.”