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Rock star applauds restraints on Napster

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SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- With the music-sharing Web site Napster facing a deadline Wednesday to block thousands of songs, rock star Ted Nugent applauded a federal court's efforts to stop consumers from downloading the music for free.

"Anybody that believes they can get any product from an entrepreneur or the creator of artistic products for free is either stoned, drunk or brain-dead or just stupid," Nugent said Wednesday in a phone interview with CNN from his home in Lansing, Michigan.

On Friday, the recording industry gave Napster a list of 135,000 songs under copyright that it wants blocked. According to an earlier ruling from U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Napster has three business days to block access to the songs once notified by the industry. That would suggest that Wednesday figures to be a significant deadline for Napster.

Hall ruled that once notified, "Napster shall, within three business days, prevent such files from being included in the Napster index, thereby preventing access to the files corresponding to such names through the Napster system."

Nugent said he appreciates the technological advances that allow music lovers to access songs on the Internet, but he said that should not deprive artists of royalties or payments.

"I have the confidence in those people that are on the cutting edge of technology that we will discover a way that this new industry like Napster will have a legal way to facilitate the music to the people so it can enrich their lives, but that in the all-American tradition those people will pay for such goods," he said.

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