DOJ Drops Online Music Antitrust Investigation

Posted by michael on Thursday December 25, 2003 @07:30AM from the see-no-evil dept.

JOstrow writes "On Tuesday, the Justice Department ended a two year long antitrust investigation into the online ventures of the music industry. The assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, R. Hewitt Pate, was quoted, 'Consumers now have available to them an increasing variety of authorized outlets from which they can purchase digital music and consumers are using those services in growing numbers.' What took off a lot of the heat was pressplay (now Napster!) and MusicNet changing their services to allow songs to be transferred from machine to machine."

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Good one! by ZxCv · 2003-12-26 01:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

no problem. We are in charge.. they can't sue all of us.

Ha! Good one! We are talking about the same RIAA, right?

Ask that 12yr old girl or that 78yr old grandma if they think the RIAA can't sue all of us.

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