From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #59 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, March 1 2001 Volume 03 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Oxford [bwurm@clickfish.com] OV: OT - Next Napster Crossroads: Friday [Jennifer Woyan ] OV: pray tell.... ["Susan & C. Reid Gardner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:24:50 +0100 (MET) From: bwurm@clickfish.com Subject: OV: Oxford Hi! Anyone out there in the Oxford area? I just had an offer to do my placement at the BMW Mini-Plant from round about Mid-March until the end of July and could do with some useful hints. Thanks Birgit www.clickfish.com - der menschliche Internet-Guide. Ein Portal f|r alle, die kompetente Hilfe und Beratung im Internet suchen. Mehr als 300 qualifizierte und hilfsbereite Fachleute filtern weltweit als Clickfish-Guides relevante Links, bieten News, Informationen, Foren, Chats und sind als persvnliche Ansprechpartner der schnellste und einfachste Weg, sich im Internet rund um ein Thema zu informieren. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:15:56 -0600 From: Jennifer Woyan Subject: OV: OT - Next Napster Crossroads: Friday Next Napster Crossroads: Friday * Song-Swapper Has Asked For Review Of Injunction * If The Request's Not Granted, Napster Has To Shut Down * Vivendi Universal Balks At Joining Bertelsmann-Napster Joint Venture http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,275096-412,00.shtml SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2001 NAPSTER (CBS) The embattled and wildly popular song-swap service Napster faces its next hurdle Friday, when U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel will hold a hearing to determine the terms of a modified injunction. Patel issued the injunction last July, but her ruling was postponed two days later by the federal appeals court. If the appeals court grants Napster's request for a full hearing before all of its judges, it might buy the song-swap service some more time. Napster last Friday asked for the review by a full federal appeals court to review the three-judge decision that could shut it down, saying that the injunction against the company was too broad and violated its rights to free speech. The request comes after a three-judge panel from the appeals court earlier in the month ruled that Napster could be held liable for copyright infringement and that an injunction, that would essentially shut down Napster, was not only warranted but required. In its ruling, a major victory for the recording industry, the three-judge panel ordered a lower court to modify the injunction requiring the record labels to identify which of their copyrights were infringed on Napster. In its brief filed with the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco Friday, Napster argued that the decision by the three-judge panel would undercut legal protections that cover Internet Service Providers and "would obstruct even indisputably lawful uses of Napster's technology by its over 50 million users." Napster said that by ordering it to "police its service" for copyright violations, the panel had undercut a protection Congress gave ISPs under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The service said it is entitled to the same legal protection, meaning that any court-ordered injunction against it would have to specify copyright-infringements. The company also argued that the court ruling would "hinder the development of new technologies," an outcome in conflict with a Supreme Court decision holding that the makers of videocassette recorders cannot be held liable if their devices are used to record copyright-protected television shows. Finally, Napster said the three-judge panel was wrong to throw out its appeal to First Amendment free speech rights. On Tuesday, Vivendi Universal's top executive balked at the idea of joining Bertelsmann AG's proposed joint venture with Napster Inc., saying the song-swapping software company would receive too generous a share of the revenues. The German media conglomerate broke ranks with the other major record companies last year, offering to drop a copyright infringement suit against Napster and help the company develop a music subscription service that paid royalties to artists and record labels. "We understand that Bertelsmann and Napster have proposed that the distribution platform (Napster) would receive 40 percent of the revenues from the subscription service, while the content provider would receive 60 percent," said Jean-Marie Messier, chief executive of Vivendi Universal, which owns Universal Music, the world's largest record company. "That is too generous for the distribution platform, whose largest cost is bandwidth," he said. Bertelsmann and Napster proposed a service earlier this month that would charge between $2.95 and $4.95 a month for a basic subscription service and $5.95 to $9.95 a month for a premium service. "We do not recognize Napster's ability to set prices or revenue splits," Messier said. Andreas Schmidt, CEO of Bertelsmann's e-commerce group said the 60-40 split was based on a precedent set in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. He also said that Napster, which claims a user base of 60 million, could increase industry growth by 30 percent over the next five years. "I don't think the record industry could manage that by itself," he said. The other labels, which include, Sony Music Entertainment, AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc., have also responded coolly to the Bertelsmann Napster deal. "No one has yet designed a broad subscription service that complies with the law," said one label executive who requested anonymity. "Napster has talked about it. They've issued press releases. But they haven't shown anyone technology that isn't piracy." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:52:36 -0800 From: Kristy McDonald Subject: OV: Earthquake Checking in from the land of the living . . . did any of you in the Sates feel the quake? I'm guessing that Darren did, and some of you on the west coast. Here in Vancouver, we have no damage really. Power was knocked out in one of the burbs along with scattered phone interruptions. I took a look at the TV and the photos of Seattle . . . it looks icky. I gotta tell you, when I think I feel the floor vibrate, I immediately think aftershock. It's days like this the I am grateful that I live in a country that has the money and the infrastructure to pay for earthquake upgrades. I'm alive, aren't I? Gratefully, Kristy in Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:35:11 -0500 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: OV: pray tell.... Dear Kevin, Pray tell what in the world happened to the digital camera and those wonderful photos Justin was sending to us online obsessives?!?!?!?!?! HMMMMMMMMMMM?????? I've been sitting here for days now waiting for some new glimpses into the creative life of our favorite superstars... Well I have been doing other things while I wait, I admit. Like listening to the new U2 cd which is getting better every time I listen to it. Did y'all see them accepting their Grammies? I almost didn't watch the show at all since neither Del Amitri or Skillet was either a presenter or nominee... but grudgingly I sat there through about half the show and did enjoy Bono's posturing and that cool guitar Edge was wielding. And the blue-faced Pentium fellows were a hoot during Moby's song! LOL!!! TTFN Susan ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #59 *********************************