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Napster With More Arguments

by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 13, 2000 11:41am PDT

Related Topics – Sony, RIAA

Knowing that they don't have the best position in the case, Napster has filed another document explaining how they aren't doing anything wrong. They say that the RIAA's interpretation of the copyright law would create very bad results, and that a part of the law protects free downloading of songs online

The company again took shelter under earlier legal decisions that protected the right of the Sony Betamax VCR to exist even though it had the ability to duplicate copyrighted movies. That decision allows the use of new technologies if they have the capability of a substantial use that does not involve infringing copyrights, the lawyers said.

The two companies will meet in court the first week of October.

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What a stupid argument. Napster was made to copy illegal files. Most people only get illegal files. VCR's were not made chiefly to pirate movies, where napster was made to pirate songs. [I bet they will find some sort of memo stating that too]

Next thing you know they are going to do the "Chewbacca" defense from South Park.

IMHO

Sep 13, 2000 5:27pm PDT

What a stupid argument. Napster was made to copy illegal files. Most people only get illegal files. VCR's : TreMetal

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Napster is dead.

Sep 13, 2000 3:08pm PDT

Napster is dead. : Friedrich Nietzsche

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come and join the millions of people basking in my golden glow.

Sep 13, 2000 1:39pm PDT

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Ever see that movie "Wagon's East", with John Candy? You know the part where he's fighting the calvary guy, and they just keep fighting for hours, and everyone else goes off and does whatever, like getting along with each other. That's what this case is like.

Sep 13, 2000 1:49pm PDT

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- actually this case is nothing like that. On one hand you have a 350 pound canadian actor in a calvary s... : Phil

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You know, Napster might actually have a pretty good case with an argument like that. It worked for VCR's didn't it?

-Quag

Sep 13, 2000 1:28pm PDT

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  - Yeah, that seems likely to me too. : Quagmire

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you know
back when we were trying to get a record deal
and all those pink teen hair bands were getting all the deals
and the mutherfucking A & R douche bags were masturbating all over them
me and james were like surviving on hand-fulls of dust washed down with dave mustaine's stagnant piss

DAVES PISS, BAD!!

Sep 13, 2000 1:05pm PDT

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- here is that from? : cot

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Napster and I are very good friends.

Sep 13, 2000 12:43pm PDT

Napster and I are very good friends. : TERATOGEN

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5 million users?

The RIAA is salivating... when they go to sleep... they dream about multiplying that number by a various subscription fees... then by 3 for the quarterly bilking, then by 4 for the annual milking... they fall asleep happy.

Sep 13, 2000 12:38pm PDT

5 million users? The RIAA is salivating... when they go to sleep... they dream about multiplying that ... : Saeger

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chomp chomp

Sep 13, 2000 12:34pm PDT

chomp chomp : Pac-Man

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Go napster goo!! God I have Metallica! <- CURSED!

Sep 13, 2000 12:30pm PDT

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Go napster goo!! God I have Metallica! <- CURSED! : DIxx-pegasus
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- Die Napster Die! : klerck

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http://www.gamesxtreme.net/screenshots/dssg.shtml?12920001949

tomb raider 5 shots

my god,
jesus
that's discracefull, are they LOWERING the polycount since tomb 1?
spose it will still be ported to PSX thats why? (shrug)

one skin looks ripped from AQ / CS too..

Sep 13, 2000 12:06pm PDT

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  bwahahaha..ahhahaha..a.ahhahahahHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ill bust out my Cyrix 120 MHZ and my S3 Vi : tomservo
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    24: SERVO! You're alive! /me runs up and humps/hugs servo : madgrad
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      :D yes i am for now :| : tomservo
      
      26: Yess....yes....FOR NOW..... GUN death will come quietly for you Servo...quietly...remember : madgrad
    - WHERE have i been you ask? one phrase TONY HAWKS PRO SKATER 2 DEMO * A D D I C T E D * : tomservo
- yeah, they're porting it.. right up my ass : klerck

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    - while you are at it, gobble my knob. bada bing! : Phil

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OHH YEAH!!!

Sep 13, 2000 12:09pm PDT

OHH YEAH!!! : The Kool-Aid Man

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Napster had a little * W A N G * for breakfast.

Sep 13, 2000 12:08pm PDT

Napster had a little * W A N G * for breakfast. : 8=D

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yesterday i was able to get a song from gnutella (well more accurately www.gnute.com) that wasn't on napster. not very often that that happens...

btw "mississippi queen" is an awesome song :)

Sep 13, 2000 12:00pm PDT

yesterday i was able to get a song from gnutella (well more accurately www.gnute.com) that wasn't on naps... : strider_

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laaaaaaaggggggggg

Sep 13, 2000 11:58am PDT

laaaaaaaggggggggg : jidar

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FIRST POST!!!

Sep 13, 2000 11:58am PDT

FIRST POST!!! : jidar

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I MAKE POOPIES

Sep 13, 2000 11:43am PDT

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    - 11 http://www.shugashack.com/funk.y?id=360433 : dopeman

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can anyone here get on napster right now? it's telling me it has an error communicating with the server, and then that my password was wrong....can't be both things at once =)

Sep 13, 2000 11:44am PDT

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- 8: GODDAMN IT TELL ME WHAT THAT MESSAGE YOU SENT ME MENT BEFORE I DRIVE OUT TO NEW MEXICO AND KICK YOUR G... : madgrad
- 8 I am on Napster. Downloading happily. FROM METALLICA AND DR. DRe. EMINEM EVEN!! notreally. bu : dopeman

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First non anon/non klerck post

Sep 13, 2000 11:42am PDT

First non anon/non klerck post : madgrad

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