RealNetworks Ups The Ante; Wants To Add Antitrust Charges Against The MPAA
from the your-move dept
With the lawsuit between the movie studios and RealNetworks off to an inauspicious start, it looks like RealNetworks decided to pull out the nuclear option: it's trying to add anti-trust charges against the movie studios to the case. The company claims it's come across evidence that the studios colluded to boycott RealNetworks and its attempt to let people back up their legally obtained movies. It would be interesting to know the details behind the evidence, as it could make the case a lot more exciting pretty quickly.
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Filed Under: antitrust, collusion, dvds, mpaa
Companies: mpaa, realnetworks
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I hope They Do Have It
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I'm so torn with this one
Decisions, decisions...
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Just like any sort of election, it's sometimes better to choose the lesser of two evils. At least you can remove REAL software from your computer.
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It's not "loose their cash...," it's "lose their cash..."
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lose: unsuccessful in retaining possession of
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The grammar Nazi is right ....
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Antitrust
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Since the opposite of pretty which is a type of beauty is ugly could you pleas explain what ugly quick is? If you can not explain that then you have no definition of "pretty quickly". Does that mean very quickly" Or does that mean slow quickly? Or has has someone hit "Quickly" over the head with a pretty stick?
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Anon Cow -- You're an idiot.
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
- pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
- reasonably: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
- used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
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RICO the RIAA and the MPAA
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if this works can we?
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