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...Under the theory of contributory copyright infringement, as clarified in the Betamax case, Napster is only liable for its [MusicShare] technology if it can be shown to have no significant legitimate use," Fisher says...
...Shakespeare title word 37. One of the DiMaggios 38. With 1-Down, television bride 40. Kidnapped monogram 41. Grammy-winning rapper 43. Rene of silents 45. A Berkeley scientist has figured a way to make hydrogen fuel from these 46. He's running on the Green ticket 47. Betamax introducer 48. Straw in the wind...
Yale is part of a great family of second-bests--of institutions that almost tasted the fruits of glory but came up just short. Yale is the Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...
...your old record player. It's probably somewhere down there in the basement behind your broken-down Betamax, a Rubik's Cube or two, and a vinyl copy of Synchronicity. Cue up a record, and let it play. Congratulations--you're a musician. There may even be a spot for you on the rap-rock Family Values Tour...
With so many formats to choose among, is a VHS vs. Betamax-type standards war brewing? Could be. Some electronics companies are lining up behind one or another product, although many say they will probably sell them all. Other standard setters, such as Panasonic, don't sell any in the U.S. yet. For any recording scheme to go mainstream, it will have to get even cheaper and simpler, according to Chris Muratore, an analyst at Soundata, Inc., a market-research firm based in Hartsdale, N.Y. But there's clearly an appetite for recordable-music formats. According to Muratore's research...