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Napster Urged To Block White Power Music |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 06 July 2004 |
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Germany's internal security agency has asked the parent company of Napster, the Germany-based Bertelsmann, to prohibit the exchange of music by neo-Nazi bands on its online song-swapping service. According to Andreas Schmidt, head of the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group, the company condemns the use of Napster to swap Nazi music but claimed that the company is powerless to stop it. However, the company has been able to block the sharing of commercial acts like Metallica. Ruediger Hesse, an internal security agency spokesperson, stated, "Napster is a particular challenge because with it, everyone has access to skinhead and Nazi music with its incitement to hatred and its appalling anti-Semitic content." (Reuters, December 20, 2000).
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