Napster Loses Key Ruling in Court Case

Updated from 7:57 p.m. EDT.

Napster, which allows people to swap music over the Internet, on Wednesday lost a major battle in its war with the recording industry when a federal judge issued an order temporarily shutting down the service.

Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco said the evidence indicated that Napster users download copyrighted material. "When the infringing is of such a wholesale magnitude, the plaintiffs are entitled to enforce their copyrights," she said, according to Reuters. ...