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Apr
Napster has been reborn as a legal online music service, but the ghost of its former renegade song-swap self is trailing about $17 billion of legal baggage.
Next Tuesday [04/27/04], music labels and publishers will face off against Bertelsmann AG [BERT.UL] in federal court in San Francisco over claims the German media company’s 2000 investment in Napster kept the file-swapping service operating eight months longer than it would have done otherwise. [more @ www.forbes.com]
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