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Napster Calls MusicNet Monopolistic; Judge Agrees
MattW writes "Yahoo is carrying an article from the AP about a development in ongoing Napster litigation. Several major labels and RealNetworks formed MusicNet. Napster complained about an anti-competitive clause in the contract they signed with MusicNet, and Marilyn Hall Patel, best known to this community for her stern condemnation of Napster, agreed, stating that MusicNet had all the hallmarks of an anticompetitive business. The article goes on to state that, "If the recording industry was found to have misused its copyrighted material, it might not be able to successfully pursue an infringement claim on those works.""
First toast!
-DFW - alive, and banning won't stop me!
this blather added to avoid lameness filtering
Hello everyone. Sorry for not posting for a week or so. I took a
vacation. I went to see the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Nothing feel
better that taking a shit at a track or stadium, esp when just as a turd
comes out, the crowd erupts in cheers. It felt like they were cheering
for my turds. I almost cried; it was touching. That turd was a 9. It
was long and coiled around the bowl. It had a nearly perfect brown color
to it.
The next day's turd was a 0, due to the track food and the party keg of
Grolsh i drank in the stands.
The rest of the turds during vacation were average. I think it may have
to do with the foods available in Indiana.
Today's trud was quite nice. It was a deep black color. It was also
shaped/composed kinda funny. It was shaped and looked like a pinapple
grenade. It looked as if it was made of dozens of marble sized
turdlets. It was pretty hard as well; it took quite a bit of pushing to
get it started out of my ass. It was small and flushable. There was no
smell to it, which is odd. I rate today's turd as a 6.
> Linux and BSD have different development methods
I think the First Post retards and the Turd Report were more on topic than this drug-induced ramble.
-All your Qaeda are belong to us!
> I was wondering if anyone here has any experience cleaning jizz stains out of cat hair.
Just shave the cat bald. No more jizzy hairballs, and the cat looks sexier too!
If only we could keep the nerd posts at 1 or higher to a minimum then everything would be great.
Damn it - I logged in, but it still took these as AC comments... :(
creation science book
If people are allowed to freely transfer accurate information from one place to another, what will this do to our capability to defend against terrorism?
Just imagine: GPS positions, stolen passwords and so on.
of the trolls. You have no change to be moded up make your time.
No, I've never found my cat to be stained afterwards. Maybe you should look at your diet?
Mod this shit down it is lame shit.
Uhm, Sting was with the Police. Mark Knopfler was the lead for Dire Straights.
Nonetheless did Sting sing this line (too?)
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
Sigh... Sting sang background vocals on the Dire Straights song "Money for Nothing" in which he sung "I want my MTV".
Rules for posting...
1) Know facts
2) Post
Not the other way around.
Sting sang background on the Dire Straits song, and actually received a cowriting credit, since he used the tune of The Police's "Don't stand so close to me".
I Want my Net-TV (to paraphrase Sting from a Dire Straights song)
Whoever modded this up didn't read his sig. 2 mistakes in one line deserves -5 Stupid
Sting = lead singer of Police
Dire Straights = Dire Straits, lead singer really Mark Knopfler.
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
Doh! You get a '-3 Foot-in-mouth' for calling someone stupid when they're (half) right!
While he did spell the band's name wrong, he's correct that Sting sang the intro 'I want my MTV'.
If you're going to gripe about spelling in Slashdot, it's like peeing in the ocean.
:)
And if you're going to suggest someone should get a -5 Stupid for saying something wrong that is actually correct (Sting did sing in that song), what does that say about you?
If every post that had spelling mistakes or grammatical errors was modded down, very few posts would ever get seen. The best way to comment on spelling and grammar (and facts!) is to try to set a good example and not make mistakes yourself...
...otherwise your going to loose you're mind in this place.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I dunno, when are readers going to find better things to do than bitch about the editors of slashdot?
/. offends you so much, quit reading. But for all the gods' sake, shut the hell up.
If
I'd prefer a case of alien bites human, injects a spore, which eats the human from the inside out in excrusiating pain, which eventually kills them.
Maskirovka
Call me a cynic will you
I am a free man!
I do believe the Judge can pinch-hit for a lawyer. Rumor has it that most judges are lawyers, or at least were.
BTW, this is wickedly great news, but a bit too late to save Napster. It is, tho... vengeance.