Intellectual Property Law

Napster Trial Celebrates Decade Anniversary

By David Kravets

I have a Monday story in Wired.com’s This Day in Tech blog reviewing the Napster litigation, 10-years-old today.

“The Napster trial was about big money. Along the way, the case mutated into a cannibalizing feeding frenzy: The music industry was searching for deep financial pockets, and targeted one of its own.”

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Full post as published by Threat Level on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).