Napster to face action for alleged failure to comply with injunction

Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the RIAA, said: “At this point it’s pretty clear that Napster is not complying with the court order.”

Napster denies the allegation. It has put basic filtering systems in place, but claims that the record companies are not fulfilling their duties under the injunction. They were ordered to provide Napster with the file names of infringing works on Napster’s service; instead, Napster says they have only provided artist and title details.

Napster claims it has blocked 1.3 million file names since the injunction was passed. However, users are still accessing the songs they want by using misspellings in artist and title details. Some are using third party software interfaces that encrypt and decrypt file names.