A US federal judge has issued an injunction against Napster, ordering the popular online songswap service to begin blocking access to music files within 72 hours of receiving official notification that they are covered by recording industry copyright.
The judge instructed Napster to stop "engaging in, or facilitating others in, copying downloading, uploading, transmitting, or distributing copyrighted sound recordings".
But in wording that heartened supporters of the popular online music service, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel placed part of the onus on the recording industry, instructing it to identify exactly which music files it wanted blocked.
