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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (3454)	2/13/2001 4:07:25 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15481

The Napster case is not about whether the Internet will become the primary channel for the distribution of media content (not just music but everything).... The case is about who will get to control the spoils. The genie is already out of the bottle, and the public is already hooked. Imagine if someone 100 years ago stole somebody else's patent and started marketing a horseless carriage. And the inventor, who had the right to this thing but wasn't marketing it, went rushing into court (presumably riding his horse there) and sued to stop it. The court would have ordered the horseless carriage company to stop selling stuff that it didn't have the right to sell. But today we would not all be riding around on horses as a result of the Court's decision.