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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...

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