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"Napster's heinous crime: independence"

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Napster's heinous crime: independence

By: Thomas C Greene in Washington

Posted: 05/04/2001 at 17:49 GMT

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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.

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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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