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Metallica and Dr. Dre have been some of the most active musical groups in opposing Napster, whose peer-to-peer system has enabled the large-scale duplication of copyrighted music in compressed MP3 format. Many of Napster's users are students with high-speed Internet access through their universities, and Metallica and Dr. Dre have pursued perceived infringements accordingly: lawsuits filed under federal racketeering statutes against Yale, Indiana University and the University of Southern California were dropped only after those universities banned Napster access. However, those universities acted more for reasons of expediency than fear of legal sanction; a number...
...about to find out just how deep MP3's pockets really are. Wednesday, a U.S. district judge ordered the Internet music company to pay Universal Music Group a whopping $25,000 for each CD posted on the site - for a total fine that could easily reach $250 million. The award was considerably less severe than it could have been; as the judge was happy to remind MP3 defendants, he weighed fining the company up to $150,000 per CD, but chose a lower number to reward MP3 for their responsible behavior, relative to other music sites. What would this...
...MP3, this ruling is a particularly harsh indictment; executives hoped the site's strict "usage guidelines" - the company claims participants are forced to prove they own a particular CD before listening to the songs, a bit of legally inspired window-dressing that seems both illogical and unlikely - would help protect the company from record companies' wrath. They were wrong. And now, as the music industry learns of Universal's hefty win, MP3 faces another round of jaw-dropping fines - while the site managed to cut deals with several record companies to stanch any legal action, only half of the music...
...Predictably, MP3 spokespeople expressed disappointment with the judge's decision, just as record executives everywhere burst into cheers. This is unlikely to be the last go-around over online music distribution; as the topic (and the practice) heats up, each wave of new users is almost guaranteed to be closely followed by a new wave of lawsuits...
...faithful video of the Bible, which it plans to make available on the Internet. The project is expected to take up to 15 years and cost in the neighborhood of $400 million. For all that, it won't be the first: the entire New Testament is already online in MP3 format at www.audiotreasure.com C'EST CHIC, LE GEEK Strange bedfellows Levi Strauss & Co. and Philips Electronics have teamed up to produce a line of high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created...