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Et Tu Brute? EMI to Sue AOL Over Musical Infringement

QGambit writes "Salon.com is running an AP story about EMI Music suing AOL Time Warner for using songs from its music catalog on TBS and the AOL service without paying for them."EMI's publishing unit contends that AOL Time Warner is illegally using songs for promotional purposes from "The Wizard of Oz," "Singin' in the Rain," and other classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies." Good. Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile."

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  1. I don't think so... by Skirwan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Good. Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile.
    I'm pretty sure that most individual lawyers aren't multithreaded, but a massively parallel system like the legal department at EMI or AOL/TW has got to be able to do more than one thing at a time.

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  2. Seems I read somewhere by thumbtack · · Score: 4, Funny

    that sharks sometimes attack each other when in a feeding frenzy....

  3. It�s still our fault!!! by DaHat · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of us are to blame because we watch, if our tv's would prevent the viewing of unauthorized pieces of music then none of this would ever have happened. This is why we need DRM to keep us from being forced to listen to/see illegal broadcasts!