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Wednesday, 11 April, 2001, 06:42 GMT 07:42 UK
Judge threatens to close Napster
![]() Napster says it is trying to comply with the order
A judge in the United States has attacked the efforts of the Napster internet music-swapping service to comply with her order to stop providing copyrighted music.
At a hearing in San Francisco, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel threatened to order the immediate closure of Napster if it did not find a more effective filtering system.
Napster told the judge it was doing its best to comply with her order, and had already blocked almost two million copyrighted tracks being offered on its server.
"You created this monster, you figure it out," she told Napster's operators. An association representing record companies in the US accused Napster of flouting Judge Patel's 5 March ruling that the site was letting its users engage in wholesale copyright infringement. The site said it has done everything it can to comply, installing filtering software to block out restricted songs. And it argues that record companies have given it confusing lists of songs. The record industry has been battling against Napster for months, fearing that the rapidly growing popularity of the system will cut the number of CDs sold, and thus their profits.
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