gument is that Napster violates the U.S. Copyright laws, i.e., unauthorized reproduction; on a good number of my own CD's appears a phrase like "unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. " This point is more difficult to prove because it deals with intellectual, rather than solid, property.
             The Napster camp is pleading innocence, however, they claim shelter under the 1992 Home Audio Recording Act and the 1984 Sony Betamax case. They argue that "if Napster users aren't selling their pirated MP3's ..... then Napster, which has only been accused of contributing to infringement, hasn't done anything wrong." (Eliscu, "Napster" 2). They also state from the Betamax case that "new technologies should not be judicially banned (or re-e
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