Record Companies Get A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

from the oops dept

It seems while the record companies had their lawyers spending so much time trying to shut down Napster and other services for streaming music, they forgot to check out their own offerings. A judge has ruled that Universal broke the law by streaming songs of their artists online, without first getting approval from the music publishers.

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