MOST PEOPLE think of the Napster case, in which the record industry sued a popular song-swapping service for piracy, as over and done with, consigned to the annals of Internet history.

After all, it has been nearly a year since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in A&M Records v. Napster Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, upholding a lower court’s preliminary injunction that effectively put the free-wheeling Web site out of business.

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