Apster-Nay?

• Author: Groff-Palermo, Sarah
• Position: Napster users finding ways to skirt regulation

Better brush up on your Pig Latin. After losing its latest legal battle with the recording industry last month, Napster began blocking file-sharing of an initial list of 135,000 copyrighted songs. Creative fans circumvented the song filter by using Pig Latin and other alternate spellings--a search for "etallicaM" still turned up Metallica songs--but Napster is refining the blocks.

To stay alive, Napster plans to become a pay service this summer, with fees going to the record companies. But users may not be willing to pay for previously free files, and the...