Excerpt: In addition, Aimster is attempting to shield itself behind the very law the entertainment industry has used to go after file-swapping company Napster. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law backed by music companies and other large copyright holders, prohibits anyone from cracking code designed to protect copyrights. Aimster, which incorporated an encryption scheme into a new version released Wednesday, hopes that provision applies to it as well. Aimster spokesman Johnny Deep said the new encryption plan was created to protect the service and its members from anyone who wants to monitor the network. "The encryption technology makes it a federal crime to spam or monitor the network," Deep said, adding that it could affect record companies. "We didn't do it to shut them out, but I don't think there will be any way to distinguish between" spammers and record labels. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/news.php3?id=03022001c