Your analogies don't wash. Tobacco litigation is all about the tobacco companies concealing health truths from the public at large. For your Ferrari example to be analogous, they would have had to label the speedometer 90MPH when it was doing 150MPH and said, "Go ahead! It's only going 90MPH!"
You say "its not napster's problem the people who utilize their program have pirated MP3 music." Anyone who's bothered to read the transcripts of the trial know that Napster's founders conceived the service as a means of pirating without taking responsibility as a corporate entity (which in this country are the same rights and responsibilities as an individual).
Napster has been the lookout on the street corner pointing trusted customers toward the alley that the crack dealers are hanging in tonight. I believe those in law enforcement call it "aiding and abetting" -- yeah, Napster never "touched" the stuff, but like the lookout just "pointed." Shame is, the lookout at least gets a cut for the effort. Napster hasn't collected a penny, and no reasonable business plan seemed to be on the horizon.
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You say "its not napster's problem the people who utilize their program have pirated MP3 music." Anyone who's bothered to read the transcripts of the trial know that Napster's founders conceived the service as a means of pirating without taking responsibility as a corporate entity (which in this country are the same rights and responsibilities as an individual).
Napster has been the lookout on the street corner pointing trusted customers toward the alley that the crack dealers are hanging in tonight. I believe those in law enforcement call it "aiding and abetting" -- yeah, Napster never "touched" the stuff, but like the lookout just "pointed." Shame is, the lookout at least gets a cut for the effort. Napster hasn't collected a penny, and no reasonable business plan seemed to be on the horizon.