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[FYI] "Napster's heinous crime: independence"
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- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:15:38 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18132.html
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Napster's heinous crime: independence
By: Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 05/04/2001 at 17:49 GMT
[...]
And still the entertainment industry, most notably the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA), continues to insist that
Napster is nothing short of a criminal syndicate. It's painfully
apparent that the "copyright industry" as MPAA President Jack Valenti
likes to call the Borg Collective of media behemoths which determines
precisely what we will be entertained by and precisely how, when and
where we shall be permitted to enjoy it, will simply not tolerate the
existence of a distribution network which it can't control.
[...]
The Collective is abusing copyright laws to invade every conceivable
corner of the business, from production, to distribution, to retail
marketing, and even to private sales of purchased recorded media,
Tower Records Senior VP Mike Farrace explained in his testimony.
"If intellectual property owners had the right to control copyrights
years ago the way they propose to do now, there would be no used
books, no lending your records to a friend, no video rentals, and no
donations of recorded products, software or even books to libraries
or schools," he declared.
But his chief concern as an Internet retailer is the way the
multinational media giants are using digital rights agreements as a
Trojan horse with which to insert themselves into retail transactions
conducted on line.
[...]
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