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Feb. 9, 2000 |
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MP3.com bites back
A lawsuit asks if the litigious Recording Industry Association of America is sabotaging MP3.com's business.
By Janelle Brown
A lawsuit asks if the litigious Recording Industry Association of America is sabotaging MP3.com's business with its relentless efforts to equate the word MP3 with illegality. The trade group has slapped lawsuits on digital music-promoting companies like Napster and Diamond Multimedia and MP3.com; it has instituted a "Soundbyting" campaign to inform college students that MP3 trading is illegal. In short, the RIAA has been nothing less than ear-piercingly vocal as it fights the burgeoning technology that it blames for widespread music piracy on the Net.
But on Tuesday, the MP3 movement bit back: less than a month after the RIAA slapped MP3.com with a lawsuit for its new My.MP3.com service, Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com, is alleging that Hillary Rosen, CEO of the RIAA, has spent two years trying to sabotage his business.
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