Word: antigua
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...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
...harder for the Big Five's copyright lawyers to lay their hands on them. Pending the judge's rejiggering of her injunction order, the suits appear to have caught up to Napster; how will they catch up to Gnutella? And what happens when somebody transplants their server farm to Antigua...
...then, of course, the services could always move overseas, to Tijuana or Antigua or Vancouver or the Cayman islands - if the servers are offshore, so's the defendant, and the long arm of U.S. copyright law won't do the labels or their artists much good. It's a tactic taken by many a gambling site - and the U.S. government is still struggling with how to deal with the situation...