“Napster, which stands accused of facilitating illegal music
downloads, saw the tables turn this week as a college student
posted documentation of how its software program works.”
“The privately held Silicon Valley start-up created software
that lets Net users trade audio tracks encoded in the popular MP3
format directly from their PCs. The company last month was slapped
with a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA), which accused it of “facilitating piracy.”
“But now it’s Napster that is lodging an intellectual property
complaint.”
“Stanford University senior David Weekly posted a page
describing the Napster protocol, or the way Napster’s servers
communicate with users’ computers and transfer
information.“