GUILTY. The 9th US circuit court has dealt a crushing blow to Napster,
throwing out its appeal, and handing the RIAA a resounding victory.
The court has stopped short of shutting down Napster but demanded that Napster
ensure that users cannot swap copyrighted files, a technically impractical
task; make no mistake, Napster is back on death row.
The next step for the RIAA will probably be mandating "indemnity filters" at
all ISPs, which block anything that looks like a copyright violation (large
transfers of highly compressed data without accompanying cryptographic
copyright certificates), and suing ISPs which do not comply with
contributory infringement.