Napster Is Shutdown
July 26, 2000
Effective 4 p.m. PST this Friday, NAPSTER is no more. The controversial music-sharing giant has been stopped in its tracks by a federal judge who moments ago granted the RIAA's injunction to close the Napster server pending the outcome of the RIAA lawsuit against the company. Early reports on the web indicate that designers of similar music-sharing networks OpenNap, Gnutella, and others are already preparing for a huge influx of new users by week's end. Napster will be making a last-ditch effort to appeal the injunction on Thursday.