RIAA is a winner

It is weekend, so there isn't much news. On ZDNet we can read a round-up of the past week. An interesting article for our visitors since it handles about the RIAA. The RIAA has won two big battles this week. Both Napster and Madster have been silenced.

In a decision likely to force Napster out of business, a federal judge blocked the $9 million sale of the onetime file-swapping powerhouse to German media giant Bertelsmann. The surprise decision isn't expected to have much effect on the tumultuous online music world, but the ruling does appear to close the book on a company that became a consumer favorite while being reviled by much of the entertainment industry.

In a second victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), another judge said he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping. The judge said that Aimster, which played a brief but colorful role on the file-trading stage not long after Napster's appearance, was clearly responsible for large-scale copyright infringement.

It may be weekend, but the RIAA keeps popping up. Don't dream about it.

Source: ZDNet