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Monday, May 1, 2000
Legal Woes Limit
Student MP3 Use
ByTaenaKim
Staff Writer
Napster, an Internet MP3 provider, is
now facing legal action from two artists
who claim the company enables user to
easily violate copyright laws.
But another artist has joined forces
with the company to promote musical
access.
The rock band Limp Bizkit
announced last week it would offer a
free concert tour sponsored by Napster.
But rap artist Dr. Dre and the heavy
metal band Metallica recently sued
Napster for copyright infringement.
Metallica successfully sued Yale
University and the University of
Southern California last week to pro
hibit students from accessing Napster.
“We’re pleased with the actions taken
by the universities," said Gayle Fine,
Metallica’s manager. “They all were
quick to respond.”
The three schools were targeted by
Metallica because of their reputations
for strong arts programs, Fine said.
Metallica’s lawyers argued it was hypo
critical for such schools to not protect
intellectual property rights.
Fine said the schools acknowledged
this concern through their actions.
The University of Southern
California has banned all use of Napster
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except for legal purposes under the
supervision of university employees in
limited facilities, she said.
Yale University has also banned the
use of Napster, said Yale spokesman
Tom Conroy. “It was banned during
business hours (before), but as of now, it
is not accessible on the Yale network.”
Although the universities were
dropped from the lawsuit, legal action is
still pending against Napster, and Fine
said Metallica planned to continue fight
ing copyright violations. “We will pur
sue it vigorously,” she said.
Although hundreds of other universi
ties around the country have banned
access to Napster, UNC is among the
schools that have yet to block access to
the Web site.
“Campus policy is to provide access
as much as possible,"said John Oberlin,
executive director of Academic
Technology & Networks. “By blocking
something, we would be remiss.”
Oberlin said UNC had experienced
complaints about the copyrights, but
officials were wary of limiting access.
“On a campus with 30,000 people,
we see a wide nature of complaints,”
Oberlin said. “(But) I don’t think we’ve
ever (blocked a Web site).”
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National
Investigation Continues
In Pa. Shooting Spree
Associated Press
MOUNT LEBANON, Pa. -
Authorities trying to explain what might
have motivated a 34-year-old immigra
tion lawyer to allegedly go on a shooting
spree that left five people dead Friday
say a two-page note found in the man’s
home holds some clues.
Allegheny County District Attorney
Stephen Zappala Jr. refused to say what
the note contained, but he said the
words - believed to have been typed by
suspect Richard Scott Baumhammers -
were relevant to determining whether
the shootings were hate crimes.
Five people died in the attacks: a
Jewish woman who lived next door to
Baumhammers, an Indian man at a gro
cery, two Asian men in a Chinese
restaurant and a black man at a karate
school. Shots were also fired through the
doors of two synagogues, and a man of
Indian descent was wounded.
“Anybody who wants to guess
whether it would be a hate-related
crime, I guess these would be people
who would look at the Empire State
Building to determine if it was a sky
scraper,” county coroner Cyril Wecht
said Saturday.
He said there were so few Asians in
Pittsburgh that the likelihood of some
one picking those victims by chance
would be “one in a trillion.”
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Friday’s attacks came two months
after another deadly shooting rampage
in the Pittsburgh suburbs.
On March 1, Ronald Taylor, who is
black, allegedly killed three white men
and wounded two others in working
class Wilkinsburg.
Police said they found hate writings
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where Baumhammers lived with his
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Police say Baumhammers apparently
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Gordon, 63, who was Jewish.
A flurry of reports of shootings came
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■ Two men were shot at an Indian
grocery store in Carnegie - Anil
Thakur, 31, was killed, and Sandip Patel,
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condition Saturday.
■ Two employees at a Chinese
restaurant - Thao Pham, 30, a delivery
man from Vietnam, andJi-Ye Sun, 34,
the Chinese manager - were shot and
killed in McKees Rocks.
■ A black man- Garry Lee, 22 -
was shot and killed at a karate school in
a Monaca shopping plaza, about 20
miles from the first attack.
This Week in Tar Heel History...
0 50Years Ago:
■ This week in 1950, Moe Huntley, of Delta Phi
Sigma fraternity, was named the "Ugliest Man
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I fraternity. Huntley won new clothes and a date
I I with "Miss Modern Venus."
\ 25 Years Ago:
\ ■ This week in 1975, the State Utilities
\ Commission ruled that Chapel Hill consumers
who used the UNC-owned electric company
would pay 20 percent more per month for elec-
JJ tricity.
Campus Calendar
Today
4 p.m. - The new and old officers of
Management and Society
Association will be meeting in Union
208 to discuss the roles and duties of
group’s new officers.
7:30 p.m. - The Fellowship of
Christian Athletes will meet for the
last time this semester in the Ram’s
Room, Kenan Field House. The meet
ing will be Senior Share Night.
Wednesday
7:30 p.m.- Habitat for Humanity
will hold its last meeting in 101
Greenlaw Hall.
Items of Interest
■ The student drama company
Studio 1 will present Samuel Beckett’s
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in the Center for Dramatic Art.
The production - directed, designed
and performed by students - will focus
on the postwar human condition. The
performance, free to Play Makers
Repertory subscribers and drama
Privilege Card holders, will cost $3 for
others. For more information, call 962-
PLAY.
■ Play Makers will conclude its 1999-
2000 season with Noel Coward’s 1920s
comedy “Hay Fever” through Sunday
in the Paul Green Theatre.
Directed by Eric Woodall, the come
dy of bad manners follows a weekend
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Performance times are at 8 p.m.
Tuesdays through Saturdays and at 2
p.m. Sundays.
Call the Play Makers Box Office, 962-
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