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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."
The Irritating thing is that large businesses can get away with anticompetitive behavior and then, at the last minute get off scott free. why don't the file sharing or P2P crowd have the same Deal?
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Yet another case of our Republican administration yanking the leash back to reward their favorite corporate donors.
Proof? This investigation began during the same administration, so unless I see some actual coorelation between donation and administrative action, I call BS on you.
Actually, your analogy is slightly flawed.
It's like getting arrested for a crime, but getting released without punishment because, hey, you're not doing it right now.
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Yet another case of our Republican administration yanking the leash back to reward their favorite corporate donors.
Ummm...the music industry gives primarily to Democrats. Check it out.
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