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...company has often argued that the major record labels have failed to keep pace with the American consumer. And instead of working on its technology sprinting skills to catch up, the Recording Industry Association of America has cried copyright foul. The RIAA sued Napster for "contributory copyright infringement," and won a preliminary injunction against the company late last month in Federal District Court. But a higher court of appeals dismissed the injunction several days later, and oral arguments have been scheduled for September. Intellectual property experts and philosophers have tossed in their opinions, some supporting copyright law in its current...
Lofty allusions to copyright sanctity and public morality from both sides cannot hide the fact that the metaphorically big, fat, slow RIAA got outrun by the agile Napster in this technology race. Simply put, no major record label website puts so much music online. No major record label site is as easy...
...Some advice to the field: If you want to be a functioning outlaw, try to stay out of first place. The RIAA lawyers tend to work from the top of the list on down...
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...