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Finally the music industry is getting a taste of their own medicine!!

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Steve Ballmer from Microsoft recently announced in Asia that Linux violates more than 228 patents.  Obviously, Ballmer was attempting to turn the crowd away from Linux and into buying Windows.

The interesting part is that the author (Dan Ravicher) of the study that Ballmer referred to has come back saying that Ballmer read wrong.  Dan Ravicher said that he believes that traditional commercial software has the same risks and may even violate more patents.  We have seen MS sued more then once over violation of patents.  Plus, let's not forget that MS has built its company on "borrowed" code.  Quick examples would be DOS, Windows, and most likely more.

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The Recording Industry Association of America is broadening their attack.  Once again this greedy conglomerate is preparing to sue individuals who share their music with others.  This means that using peer-to-peer programs that replaced Napster such as KaZaa, WinMX, DirectConnect, Morpheous, may lead you to getting a hefty fine.  When is the RIAA finally going to realize that online music is the cheapest advertising they will ever have?  Perhaps Metallica will be the first band to file such a suit against their fans.  Perhaps we should all avoid listening to Metallica from now on, and do not buy any of their albums of course.  I must say, I have swapped songs in the past, sorry RIAA.  Though, I can contest, I have purchased albums since then that I would never have if I didn’t already hear the album.  This just forces artists to release better albums and only make lots of money if the album is actually worth buying.  My guess is that the albums that are already being released with copy protection (only some albums are being targeted at this time) are most likely junk and they do not want the public knowing that until after purchasing the album.

Somehow the power of the RIAA must be reduced and people must get their freedom back with what they own!Sources:http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/03/technology/music_swap