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  • Rx for Music Industry: Seek Out the Old Geezers

    04/28/2003 3:01:25 PM PDT · by weegee · 5 replies · 211+ views
    New York Times ^ | April 27, 2003 | By HARRY SHEARER
    Here's a business model with a future: sue your customers. That's what, as of this month, the recorded-music industry has been doing. It filed suit against four college students involved in Internet file-sharing (in which compressed "files" of music are swapped, Napster-style), asking for billions of dollars in damages. Yes, billions. Interestingly enough, the Bush administration, known to be opposed to frivolous lawsuits and in favor of tort reform, has weighed in on the side of the industry. Let's go after those students. That's where the money is. This strategy would suggest that lawsuits against computer makers and the manufacturers...