Word: lawsuits
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...online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge was unimpressed: Until the case can be heard in court, Diamond is free to sell it. Of course, all the publicity attendant to the little Rio probably harmed Diamond more than the lawsuit. The company...
...work Palladino did for Clinton in his 1992 campaign to keep stories of sexual misconduct from becoming public, or that the money was used to suppress Teamster dissidents. Ruff has denied the allegations as "false and nonsensical." (Calls to McAuliffe?s attorney were not returned.) The proposed lawsuit will contend that government monitors failed to do their job overseeing the Carey administration and, "as a result," says a source close to the suit, "more than $20 million of taxpayer money was wasted on one election and the union went bankrupt." If Hoffa is successful, the Teamsters...
...deal hasn't dampened the government's confidence, it does make one aspect of the trial more problematic: the remedy. The DOJ could argue, as Georgetown law professor William Kovacic puts it, that "the lawsuit was the catalyst for this deal--it gave the companies some breathing room." In that case, Jackson may decide that that's all the relief they really need. After all, the trial is slow enough. Punishment shouldn't take forever...
Remedies in antitrust suits can be tricky. No one's going to jail (at least not based on this civil lawsuit), and the point of the suit isn't to get fines or money damages. If the Justice Department prevails, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson would have to rewrite the rules of engagement so that Microsoft could no longer unfairly exploit its dominant market position. And that could even mean what every Microsoft hater truly lusts for: a breakup of the company...
...need for an expensive operating system like Windows. To head off that threat, Microsoft licensed Java from Sun in 1995 and used it to create its own "polluted"--or incompatible--version, which discouraged software developers from using the original Sun program. Sun cried breach of contract, and a lawsuit followed. Now Judge Ronald Whyte has handed Redmond a February deadline to stop shipping Java technology--currently included in Windows 98, Internet Explorer and even the humble Microsoft Office suite--without first getting Sun's seal of approval...