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Sure, Big Music is just using its lawyers to look for partners again, and it won't be long before Napster and the RIAA have worked out a deal that's a little more profitable for labels - and a little less like robbery of intellectual property - that will nudge the music industry ever closer to the Internet...
...would seem. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel, fast becoming the Judge Jackson of free music, declared Napster "enjoined from causing, assisting, facilitating, copying, or otherwise distributing all copyrighted songs or musical compositions...
...Which pretty much covers Napster's business model, and which should surprise no one. Despite the spindly legal leg on which the company stands these days - that it just sits there while other people may or may not break the law - it's pretty intuitive that their business is the free distribution of a product lawfully controlled (not to mention heavily invested in) by record companies...
...Fair enough. But what about innocent until proven guilty? Although Napster has appealed to a three-judge panel to have Patel's order stayed, traffic to Napster.com hit record highs in the wake of Patel's decision, as groove-moochers everywhere scramble to grab whatever they can drag and drop before the order takes effect at 3 p.m. Saturday...
...spell the end of music merchandising as we know it and the recording industry scrambles to find a new business model, that Akron teen is the least of their worries. The days of the CD are, after all, limited. But while record execs gnash their teeth over MP3s and Napster, the recordable CD has become a fact of life, and the new Philips CDR Mini HiFi system FW-R8is everything the execs were afraid it would...