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Judge Orders Huge Fine against Online Site MP3.com for Music Use.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Stoughton, Stephanie
Sep. 7--A federal judge in New York ruled yesterday that MP3.com had willfully infringed the copyrights of the Universal Music Group by making its CDs available for play over the Internet and ordered the online music site to pay damages that could total $250 million.
In a much anticipated decision, US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said he wanted to send a strong warning to online music distributors who "may have a misconception that, because their technology is somewhat novel, they are somehow immune from the ordinary applications of laws of the United States."
"They need to understand that the law's domain knows no such limits," the judge added.
Rakoff set damages at $25,000 for each CD of Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record...
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