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May 19, 2005
On the Logic of Suing One's Customers and the Dilemma of Infringement-Based Business Models
By Professor Justin Hughes, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
EXCERPT
"Peer to peer technology blindsided the recording industry in 1999 and, until recently, the recording industry has been fighting this battle alone. The battle has been fought mainly in the courts, not in legislative and administrative agencies. And the battle has attracted much more attention from press and pundits - indeed, a regular stream of front-page stories and television news reports. Yet the choices facing the music indusry have still been the same: (a) surrender, (b) seek to enforce copyright norms against the technology and its business models, and/or (c) seek to enforce copyright norms against individual consumers - the individual P2P users offering and downloading music files."
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Posted by andrewanissi at May 19, 2005 02:38 AM