So have millions of Napster users, who have been madly downloading audio files off the service on the assumption that the company's days are numbered. Napster tried to keep Patel from issuing the expected injunction by appealing to a full panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The need for filtering technologies, which treat pirates as criminals, will be diminished when he rolls in technology that treats pirates as competitors. Indeed, many users are giving up on the service altogether, and are scrambling to download Gnutella, Napigator and other competing file-sharing tools. I think we're all beyond Napster now.
Students say they have moved on to other underground services in the last few months.