With Napster's October court date soon to arrive, parties interested in the trial have been filing Friend of the Court briefs by truckloads.

The idea is that information they provide will help sway the court's overall judgment one way or another.

First we heard about the people and organizations that were pro-Napster, but now it's time for the anti-Napster people to rear their ugly heads. The filing of Friend of the Court briefs took place last week when twenty organizations signed a "Napster should be banned" declaration.

Now I can see why organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America and the Software and Information Industry Association would have an interest in protecting their copyrights and perhaps fear that Napster might change some laws with their new technology, but I don't see where the National Basketball Association and the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball fit into this whole digital era. (They too signed the "lets ban Napster" declaration.)

The Friends of the Court who signed the anit-Napster ban are: the Motion Picture Association of America, the Software and Information Industry Association, the American Film Marketing Association, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Media Photographers, the Professional Photographers Association, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Interactive Digital Software Association, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast Music, the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, Reed Elsevier, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the Songwriters Guild of America, and Amsong.