[LINK] E-music Challenges Napster

[Michael Lean]

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>EMUSIC CHALLENGES NAPSTER
>Music subscription site EMusic.com has started using "acoustic fingerprint"
>technology, which it says can spot any of its 140,000 songs that are being
>illegally traded by Napster users. If such song-swapping is detected,
>EMusic will send an e-mail warning, asking that the swapping cease. Napster
>has apparently agreed to block the perpetrator's account if illegal trading
>persists, and if the user finds a way back into Napster through a different
>IP address, EMusic says it will try to block that person' Internet access.
>An analyst with Webnoize says, "This is a warning shot. They are saying
>they have the technical ability to track their music." He adds that the
>situation could lead to a lawsuit that would pit the two pioneers --
>Napster and EMusic -- against each other. (ZDNet 21 Nov 2000)
>http://msnbc.com/news/493231.asp

Interesting. Um, that bit about "try to block that person's Internet 
access" - can they do that?
Legally, I mean. Wouldn't that be unconstitutional or something?
cheers,
Mike

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