Mark Kent wrote:
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
Microsoft warns of danger to digital music after record $1.5bn fine
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| Microsoft was yesterday fined a record $1.52bn (£777m) for
| infringing a digital music patent which could throw into doubt
| the future of the digital music industry.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2019691,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
This bit is intersting:
``The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we
paid...only $16m to license this technology,''
Doesn't the RIAA want and outrageous amount per illegal shared track?
Seems only fair to me.
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