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Non-Tech : Auric Goldfinger's Short List -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (4557)	1/13/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: gladman	Respond to of 19428

Here's a post that describes potential lawsuit buzz against MPPP, it's on my short watchlist. Cheers! >>Mp3.com is gonna get sued by: j_h_199 1/13/00 3:05 pm Msg: 3313 of 3315 A legal friend of mine says this is nothing more than a big fat copyright infringement case. Fed statutory damages are $10,000 per occurance, and MP3.com said yesterday that they had encoded 40,000 CDs! Assuming ~10 songs per average CD and 2 copyrights per song. Thats 8 billion dollars in copyright liability alone. And that's before you start counting each unlicensed stream at $20k too! (Remember, 2 copyrights per song) I wouldn't be surprised to see the record companies and music publishers just sue them for the cash.. Mp3.com's pockets may be deep, but they arent that deep! Does Robertson actually think he is going to get away with this for more than a day or so before half the music industry sues him? I'm actually surprised they haven't sued him yet.. <<