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DOJ Drops Online Music Antitrust Investigation

Posted by michael on 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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  1. EVIL!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is obviously part of the vast right wing conspiracy and the evil republican administration!!! Bush is of the devil. He is not really the president the republicans stole that election. He starts illegal wars.As you can see the RIAA loves the right. oh wait they loves the Dems.
    Oh well.

    Mod me down I am a troll

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    Apple... Going Bankrupt since 1976

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