Word: riaa
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...important for me to give some credit to Napster today," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of RIAA, during a Friday press conference. "I think they came into court trying to be productive. I still think that they...
Boies said Friday that Napster needed the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to send it a list of those copyrighted albums and songs that should be removed from the Napster index. In response, the recording industry has submitted a list of more than 6,500 songs...
...This was a strictly legal solution, designed to get the RIAA lawyers off its back at any cost so that Patel wouldn't shut down the service outright. The RIAA was holding all the cards, legally, and Boies knows from his IBM and Microsoft battles how much judges hate arrogant technology companies. So he did what he had to do to keep the site alive in any form...
...Napster's ultimate dream is to be a kind of AOL, to use its brand name and market penetration to be a legitimate pay-for-play community sometime in June, with the blessing of the record companies. But the RIAA wouldn't budge; they wouldn't wait until then because they knew they didn't have to. So Napster is going to try to just limp along until summer, and hope their users are still around when they've actually got a revenue model that passes muster with the RIAA...
...even been talk of AOL-Time Warner buying Aimster, which would really break this thing open. Because nobody's going to take on AOL. [Note: As the parent of TIME.com, AOL Time Warner owns this article.] Realistically, technology is going to find a way to stay ahead - the RIAA is never going to be able to stop this from their end. You can't encrypt sound...