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Napster Finally Gets a Break

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-sorta-anyway dept.

jark writes "Wired News is reporting that 9th District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that the five major record labels must prove they own thousands of music copyrights as well as prove those copyrights were not used to monopolize and stifle the distribution of digital music. " Definitely a twist in this ongoing saga.

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  1. Re:It's all about the Benjamins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you listen to half the morons on slashdot, they'll tell you "you have no right to listen to music, if sony wants to you fuck a goat to listen to music, that's their right".

    These people are consumers, not citizens.

  2. Who's the idiot now? by Fair+Use+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Well, let's take a look at a few points on your resume, shall we?
    • A Washington address. Suspicious, but I'll let it drop.
    • "Shipped 8 complete consumer applications with over 30 SKUs". So what was your contribution to the industry, again? You wrote 8 useless programs, which end users will not be able to modify, and sold them at a tremendous markup. If the programs were really all that great, why didn't you release the source code so everyone could see them? What do you have to be proud of?
    • Visual Basic, VB (virus building) Script, C# experience. Wow, that will get you real far in life - knowing a few non-portable, proprietary languages. Twit.
    • A "Brainbench" certification. Whatever that hell that is, it's probably useless.
    • Work experience at Microsoft, on .Net. Again, you're wasting your days away developing proprietary technologies that trade security and stability for profits. Nothing new here.
    You see, Mr. Cooke, the difference between you and me is that I am working for a better world. I want to see more openness, more sharing, and more flexibility. Information wants to be free. You, on the other hand, embrace a pay-as-you-go model of selling software that is quickly becoming obsolete with the continued success of the open source movement. Your only goal is material gain; someday you will realize the sheer emptiness of your life, but by that point it will probably be too late.

    Our side is winning, Mr. Cooke. Ten years from now, I will have something to show for my efforts, and all you will have is an unemploment check.

    Think about it.

    /fug

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    Throw off the shackles of copyright law.