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...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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...Napster, for whom the lawyers toll. They toll for thee. The Recording Industry Association of America, otherwise known as the RIAA, otherwise known as the music industry's Powers That Be, is rolling out the evidence that free-music enabler Napster is bringing down the American Way, one $15 CD at a time. According to a study conducted by retail-store tracker SoundScan as a supporting brief to the RIAA's copyright-infringement suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster...
...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...
...pleased with the court's decision today," said Hilary Rosen, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the record companies. RIAA also sued Diamond over the first portable MP3 players in 1998, and is currently trying to stop another MP3 network run by Napster...