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After the Supreme Court ruled in MGM v. Grokster that file-sharing services can be sued for promoting illegal downloads, Mashboxx, a start-up run by Grokster's ex-president, partnered with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, whose CEO Andrew Lack, below, spoke with TIME...
...construction quandaries are finally resolved, Detroit's monorail will emulate the success of similar systems in Toronto and Vancouver. George Pastor, president of Urban Transportation Development Corp.-USA, the company that is building the People Mover, claims the train will pay its own way within three years of start-up. "These systems are cheaper in capital and operating costs than traditional transit systems," Pastor insists. "When you subtract all the nonsense that occurred throughout the tragic history of this project, that will still be proved." --By Richard Stengel. Reported by William J. Mitchell/Detroit
...that a 32-year-old doctor, who had no history of heart trouble, fell victim to a heart attack after futilely yanking the lawn mower's starter cord 15 times. A Philadelphia jury found that the mower's exhaust valve failed to meet the manufacturer's own specifications, hindering start-up to the extent that the rope indeed had to be pulled with excessive force. The jury did award $1,750,000, but the case was subsequently settled for an undisclosed amount...
Bushnell's baby, Atari, which he left in 1979, lost $539 million in 1983 when the video-game industry crashed. The following year his second big start-up, Pizza Time Theater, a chain of restaurants featuring singing robots with names like Chuck E. Cheese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Despite these debacles, Bushnell sold off the ventures early enough to pocket about $70 million...
...allowed DormAid to operate under a strict “one-strike” policy, Mather and Lowell have refused them the privilege. The service will ultimately be up and running on campus next year and, according to Kopko, its mere existence reflects the value of resilience for any start-up enterprise...