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...label approach doesn't play fast and loose with copyright laws. Napster's "directory" model sure does, even if the company claims the fault lies with users, not itself. David Boies, once the government's lead lawyer against Microsoft and now representing Napster against Big Music, wasn't there to tell the committee how he plans to find enough loopholes in the laws to keep Napster from getting stomped by the RIAA...
...MICROSOFT AND POETIC JUSTICE...
Lenzner's brand of "oppo research" isn't unique. Muckraking in Washington and on behalf of FORTUNE 500 companies is pretty much s.o.p. in the p.i. world. So Oracle's hiring of I.G.I. to try to get the goods on Microsoft's secret support of three "advocacy groups" isn't all that shocking. Neither is the fact that I.G.I.'s investigation uncovered Microsoft's financial support of the groups...
Though accusations of wrongdoing remain unproved, officials from the California-based Independent Institute, one of the groups in question, say news stories documenting their links to Microsoft may have been drawn from records kept on office laptops that went missing last June, begging this question: Were the tips Oracle leaked to the press based on data stolen by I.G.I...
...firm's loyalties are in question too. Earlier this year, I.G.I. was hired by Microsoft (through one of its law firms) for a weeklong assignment. "We weren't told by I.G.I. that they were working against us," says Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma. "Normally we are told of conflicts of interest...