Word: riaa
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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...
...After all, the judge has already decided in the RIAA's favor...
...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...
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...RIAA, this is not a happy future. "The $40 billion music industry's business," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld, "is evolving, painfully, from selling products to simply providing a service. Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music." Not any more. The question for the industry is how it can still get a slice, how to make sure that all the money they spend on starmaking doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster...