Madster P2P service (formerly Aimster) is hardly used for music s...
Madster P2P service (formerly Aimster) is hardly used for music sharing, its owner said in asking judge for 30-day extension to respond to music industry draft preliminary injunction on file sharing. “I estimate 99% of Aimster messages are simply…
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private messages being exchanged among users, and not downloads at all,” John Deep told court. He also said Madster, unlike Napster, had no central database for filtering, and users encrypted their names and messages, severely limiting company’s ability to control system’s use. Requiring users to install software or provide information about themselves raises legal and financial problems, Deep said. U.S. Dist. Judge Marvin Aspen, Chicago, ruled that music companies were entitled to injunction against contributory copyright infringement and that Madster’s reply to plaintiffs’ proposed language was due previous week. Deep said he told his Boies, Schiller & Flexner attorney, George Carpinello, Sept. 16 that he was considering hiring “alternative counsel.” Carpinello has asked to withdraw. Hearing is set for Tues. (Oct. 1), but Deep said he hadn’t found replacement counsel and needed more time because of case’s complex challenges and need for Madster’s bankruptcy judge to approve hiring counsel. He said in interview that proposed injunction was too harsh under Napster precedents and effectively would shut down Madster.