This is in follow-up to a posting on punkmusic.com which implied that Epitaph ordered Napster to remove their bands from the peer to peer network. According to Jason Henry, an Epitaph publicist, the decision to remove all Epitaph bands from Napster was made soley by Emusic. As many of you know, Emusic was recently purchased by Universal. During the process, Emusic send over a memo to Napster instructing them to remove all Epitaph music.

"This is not an Epitaph decision," Henry says, "but it isn't to say that Epitaph is pro or against Napster in any way." When asked whether Epitaph agreed with the decision, Henry stated "We just want to look out for what our bands want."" That seems to be a good attitude, too bad Emusic owns those MP3 rights. The fact is, most smaller bands would want their stuff on Napster, I found a lot of good, new stuff by browsing the shares of people who had music I was looking for. I don't claim that I only use Napster to find free music, it's possible I might have a copyrighted MP3 somewhere, but I have started buying the CDs for bands who have more than one good song.