| CBDTPA - Intellectual Property Laws Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, formerly known as the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act" (SSSCA), is the handiwork of Senators Hollings, Feinstein, Stevens, Inouye, Breaux and Nelson. This law would be deadly to the non corporate entertainment world as we know it today. Here are my views, opinions and the latest information.
And They Thought Napster was Dead: News.Com: Bertelsmann buys Napster for $8 million. F 
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or What It's Worth Department: Let's see-- Napster designs a music file sharing system. The company eats up a considerable amount of VC funds to build a product that could revolutionize the music industry. Napster trys to work with the recording industry, but gets blown off by the record companies. Then the recording industry sues Napster out of business. Now Bertelsmann, one of the major names in the recording-entertainment-online industry in Europe, (and a good friend of AOL/TW,) buys Napster at a fire sale for the technology. [sniff-sniff] What smells ?
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