The music industry managed to shut down Napster, but despite winning an injunction the RIAA will have less success with Napster's inevitable follow-up, Madster. "Madster founder Johnny Deep... said he didn't know of a way to block only copyrighted files because the transferred material is encrypted. Asked if he would shut it down, Deep said, 'There's nothing I can do to shut it down. It's the Internet. I can't shut the Internet down.'" Madster used to be called Aimster, but changed its name after a dispute with America Online. CRLF
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