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DOJ Drops Online Music Antitrust Investigation
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."
"But no serious punishment or solution, such as splitting up the company, has even been considered."
Actually a split order was considered and the ruling lost on appeal. Just because you personally don't like the way the matter was resolved does not mean the solution was the best arrangement or all involved. I really wish you slashbots would quit thinking the world revolves around yourselves and if things aren't done your way they aren't done right. Get over yourself.