Editing Napster (section)

===Lawsuit===
{{Main|A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.}}

Napster's facilitation of the transfer of copyrighted material was objected to by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA), which filed a [[lawsuit]] against the service on December 6, 1999.<ref>*[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/114/896/2343353/ ''A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.'', 114 F. Supp. 2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204173523/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/114/896/2343353/ |date=2019-12-04 }}, aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 239 F.3d 1004 ([[9th Cir.]] 2001)
*{{cite news | last=Menta | first=Richard | title=RIAA Sues Music Startup Napster for $20 Billion | date=December 9, 1999 | publisher=MP3 Newswire | url=http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/napster.html | access-date=April 29, 2005 | archive-date=December 12, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212042457/http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/napster.html | url-status=usurped}}</ref> The legal action, while intended to shut down the service, brought it [[Streisand effect|a great deal of publicity]] and an influx of millions of new users, many of whom were college students. After a failed appeal to the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|Ninth Circuit Court]], an injunction was issued on March 5, 2001, ordering Napster to prevent the trading of copyrighted music on its network.<ref>2001 US Dist. LEXIS 2186 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 5, 2001), aff’d, 284 F. 3d 1091 (9th Cir. 2002).</ref>

[[Lawrence Lessig]] claimed, however, that this decision made little sense from the perspective of copyright protection: "When Napster told the district court that it had developed a technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not good enough. Napster had to push the infringements 'down to zero.' If 99.4 percent is not good enough," Lessig concluded, "then this is a war on file-sharing technologies, not a war on copyright infringement."<ref>{{cite book |last= Lessig |first= Lawrence |author-link= Lawrence Lessig
|title= Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
|year= 2004 |publisher= Penguin
|isbn= 978-0-14-303465-0 |pages= 73–74 }}</ref>