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Ruling in Aimster Case

Posted by michael on from the dead-as-a-doornail dept.

Circuit Breaker writes "A short history of Aimster: Got noticed by the RIAA, lost their domain name to AOL, changed their name to Madster. More recently, a preliminary injunction has been issued against them, according to BBC News and Associated Press. Who's next?" Aimster declared bankruptcy months ago, so this is really a formality: beating a dead horse.

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  1. Madster Homepage by T-Kir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Everybody, It's That Same Great Service You've Known And Loved For So Long - Now With A Mad Cool New Name ...

    They ought to add to the website:

    ...not only all that, you can make friends with all those music company bigwigs, and win a free long term holiday in a -4 star jail cell. It's absolutely fun fun fun! An the other funny thing people, we're dead!! Isn't that super!

    Madster - we've got a new namester

    ...nope, another change needed... Deadster will do nicely.

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  2. A judge with an odd sense of humor? by Alsee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the Associated Press link:
    [Judge] Aspen gave the companies suing Madster until next week to propose language for a "narrowly tailored" injunction that would end copyright infringement "while allowing non-infringing uses of the Aimster system, if any, to continue."

    Somebody hit this judge with a clue-stick please?
    It would be a lot easier to try to end the use of Madster by left handed people while allowing right handed to continue using the system. *

    * Foot note, ambidexterous people can only use the system on tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays, and before noon on sundays.

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  3. Aimster Info by Evro · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I used to work at Aimster; for some more info about how they shafted their employees (similar to Loki I guess), read some of my old Journal entries: Also worthy of note is this site that John Deep has set up, ostensibly for his daughter to write about all her "knowledge" of the music industry; I'd put 10 to 1 odds that it's John himself writing that garbage, and 100 to 1 that it's not his daughter. The site is www.musicpundit.com.
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  4. Slashdot 1 Horses 0 by ArthurDent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Total dead horses fragged: 5793

    Ben