Napster loses its final battle against the RIAA, as music industry lawyers convince a judge to block the file-swapping company’s US$9 million sale to Bertelsmann.
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
A Taiwanese Web site is offering hundreds of videos on demand for just US$1 each, trumping Hollywood's plans to deliver similar services and raising the spectre of a new round of international copyright battles.
Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.
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