Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
No, not 'strangeness' at all. It's standard business practice these days to sue over anything and everything you can find grounds to file over. And in this case there's a particularly large bonus if they win. Due to a quirk in copyright law you can have the copyright cancelled on works that have been 'abused' in a certain way. If Sharman/Kazaa wins, which is unlikely but still slightly possible -- and will take many years of appeals of course, it could result in just about the whole catalog defended by RIAA being dumped into the public domain. That would give them a great big pool of free stuff to grease their network and attract more people to see the ads that are their actual source of revenue.
[ September 24, 2003, 18:49: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]
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