Napster, Mp3.com Users Answer Call For Support
In response to pleas for public support from MP3.com and Napster, Internet music users over the weekend swamped U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., with 70,000 E-mails urging tolerance, according to Reuters.
The E-mail strategy, mounted just days after the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on digital music piracy, was initiated by MP3.com and Napster as a way to counteract the music industry's campaign against the two companies.
According to the report, MP3.com sent an e-mail to members last Thursday, asking them to tell the senators that the companies' customers aren't breaking the law. A letter posted Friday on Napster's Web site from the company's CEO Hank Barry requested that its 20 million users let the senators know that their balanced views on copyright issues are appreciated by the Napster community.
Napster is being sued for copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association Of America. MP3.com has settled with two of the five majors in its copyright infringement battle with the RIAA.
Meanwhile, a group of Internet executives polled Monday at the Internet Summit in Los Angeles weighed in on Napster's future. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 68% of the audience predicted that the site has little chance of winning the lawsuits against it.
"In Prohibition, drinking was super popular," RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said. "All of us have to find a way to make this thing that people want to do legal. Consumers will buy the legal stuff. We won't have people getting illegal downloads en masse any more than we have people drinking moonshine en masse anymore."
The E-mail strategy, mounted just days after the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on digital music piracy, was initiated by MP3.com and Napster as a way to counteract the music industry's campaign against the two companies.
According to the report, MP3.com sent an e-mail to members last Thursday, asking them to tell the senators that the companies' customers aren't breaking the law. A letter posted Friday on Napster's Web site from the company's CEO Hank Barry requested that its 20 million users let the senators know that their balanced views on copyright issues are appreciated by the Napster community.
Napster is being sued for copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association Of America. MP3.com has settled with two of the five majors in its copyright infringement battle with the RIAA.
Meanwhile, a group of Internet executives polled Monday at the Internet Summit in Los Angeles weighed in on Napster's future. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 68% of the audience predicted that the site has little chance of winning the lawsuits against it.
"In Prohibition, drinking was super popular," RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said. "All of us have to find a way to make this thing that people want to do legal. Consumers will buy the legal stuff. We won't have people getting illegal downloads en masse any more than we have people drinking moonshine en masse anymore."
In addition, make sure to read these articles:
- Napster, MP3.com Users Answer Call For Support
- Copyright Law Hot Topic At Senate Hearing
- Online Compulsory Licenses Hot Topic At Senate...
- Senate realignment affects nominees
- Liberals Tune in Radio
- Hatch Mulls Backing Piracy Bill
- Senators Hatch, Leahy Link For Anti-Piracy Ad
- Hatch, Leahy Link For Billboard Anti-piracy Ad
- Hatch, Leahy link for Billboard anti-piracy ad
- Real's Subs: A Rhapsody in Green
- Hatch Questions Napster Ruling
- Legislative highlights
- Finding the source of DVD piracy is elusive.
- Realnets Goes With The Gold
- Hatch Signs On To Sat Reform
In addition, make sure to read these articles:
- Napster, MP3.com Users Answer Call For Support
- Copyright Law Hot Topic At Senate Hearing
- Online Compulsory Licenses Hot Topic At Senate Hearing
- Senate realignment affects nominees
- Liberals Tune in Radio
- Hatch Mulls Backing Piracy Bill
- Senators Hatch, Leahy Link For Anti-Piracy Ad
- Hatch, Leahy Link For Billboard Anti-piracy Ad
- Hatch, Leahy link for Billboard anti-piracy ad
- Real's Subs: A Rhapsody in Green
- Hatch Questions Napster Ruling
- Legislative highlights
- Finding the source of DVD piracy is elusive.
- Realnets Goes With The Gold
- Hatch Signs On To Sat Reform
In response to pleas for public support from MP3.com and Napster, Internet music users over the weekend swamped U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, ......
Witnesses from the record industry, artist community, and technology businesses outlined their concerns about online music before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday (April ......
Witnesses from the record industry, artist community, and technology businesses outlined their concerns about online music before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but ......
The realignment that will swing control of the Senate from Republicans to Democrats will affect President Bush's strategy of appointing conservative jurists to federal courts....
We're going to put it to Bush. Bush is going down in November. We are putting it to right-wing media." With that, satirist Al Franken ......
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, might be considering giving his support to controversial legislation designed to provide piracy protection for entertainment content delivered over high-speed digital ......
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have joined together ......
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have joined together ......
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have joined together ......
New York — RealNetworks Inc. is looking to pick up a bigger share of the online music business by rolling out varied subscription choices. The ......
This week's court decision that threatens to shut down the wildly popular Napster file-sharing service has caught the attention of lawmakers, with the chairman of ......
House-Senate Conferees Meet Sharp Differences Remain and Future in Doubt House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner directed staffers to the conference committee to work up ......
According to the Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), the DVD industry has shipped over three billion discs since the format's launch in 1997. The ......
RealNetworks Inc. is a pioneer in streaming media files via the Internet. Its popular RealPlayer and RealJukebox software products locate, play and organize audio and ......
Sen. Orrin Hatch fired the first shot in what could be a long congressional battle to reform the nation's premier satellite television law when he ......
Email
Digg It
del.icio.us
Related Resources
Get In-Depth Company Information from Hoover's | Buy a D&B Credit Report | What is in Your Company's D&B Credit Report? | Article Archives
Online Business Database | Online Business Information | Email Marketing Lists | Sales and Marketing Solutions | Business Mailing Lists
Online Business Database | Online Business Information | Email Marketing Lists | Sales and Marketing Solutions | Business Mailing Lists
Information and opinions on AllBusiness.com solely represent the thoughts and opinions of the authors and are not endorsed by, or reflect the beliefs of,
AllBusiness.com, its parent company D&B, and its affiliates.
AllBusiness.com, its parent company D&B, and its affiliates.
