> and the record companies had to submit every song they did not want to get shared along with an explanation to every person who had Napster installed. ...whe

> and the record companies had to submit every song they did not want to get shared along with an explanation to every person who had Napster installed. ...when did that ever happen? The post-Napster-but-pre-BitTorrent era (coincidentally, the same time-period as the BonziBuddy-era) was when Morpheus, KaZaA, eDonkey, Limewire, et cetera were relevant, and they got-away-with-it, in-part, by denying they had any ability to moderate their users' file-sharing; there was no "submitting of every song" to an exclusion-list because there was no exclusion-list or filtering in the first place.