LONDON (Brand Republic) - The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a new court order against Napster, claiming that its filter to block copyrighted material from its service has failed and calling for the company to change its methods.
Napster applied the filtering system to comply with a court injunction earlier this month ordering it to remove copyrighted music from its music-swapping service. The company has worked 鈥渇lat out鈥 to comply with the order and it says that more than 275,000 songs have been filtered.
However, the RIAA says that many of the files that Napster claims to have removed are still available. Napster, in turn, claims that the RIAA has not given it enough information to remove the files, such as where the songs are on the system and variants of song titles.
The new court order asks that Napster be forced to use a new filtering method, which would allow authorised songs to be placed on the system, instead of filtering out unauthorised music already on the system.
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