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[FYI] (Fwd) DOJ goes to bat for napster




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From:           	trowland <trowland@FREENET.TLH.FL.US>
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Subject:        	DOJ goes to bat for napster
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David Boies, the lawyer recently seen cleaning Microsoft's clock for
the DOJ is going to bat for Napster <http://www.napster.com/>, and he
is bringing a curious bit of law with him. It seems that if one uses
enforcement of a copyright in an anti-competitive fashion -- which
Napster says it has documents proving members of the RIAA cartel have
done -- you lose your ability to legally enforce that copyright .
Oops! More here <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2198482.html>."
You can read the actual brief in pdf format
<http://dl.napster.com/opposition.pdf> as well. Boies lays out all his
arguments on page three...


This is blatantly copied from slashdot
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/04/0041256.shtml
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