Music industry asks for computer in song-swapping suit
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PROVIDENCE -- A hearing over whether two Rhode Island parents must surrender their computer to investigators seeking proof that their son illegally shared songs online is scheduled for 2 p.m. today in U.S. District Court, Providence. The hearing had been originally scheduled for Dec. 15. Magistrate Judge Lincoln Almond postponed the hearing to make sure all lawyers in the case were authorized to appear in court. Charles Nesson, a Harvard law school professor, is expected to ask Almond to bar the music industry from forcing the parents of Joel Tenenbaum to surrender the family computer. In a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, Capitol Records Inc. accuses Tenenbaum of violating copyright laws by downloading and sharing seven songs while a teenager living at home in Providence. Tenenbaum, 24, now lives in Boston, where he is pursuing a doctorate in physics at Boston University. His mother, Judith Tenenbaum, has said the family disposed of the computer her son used as a teen years ago. -- With reports from The Associated Press and Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney. 
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The Music Industry needs to find a new business model if they are to survive. They have cheated the artists for years and now they are attacking the listeners. And they wonder why we don't want to purchase their products?!!!
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Len, obviously people WANT their products, some people just don't want to PAY FOR THEM. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
It seems to me that the Music Industry is out there trying to get money for the artists, the promoters, and everybody else who had a hand in getting good music out in front of an appreciative audience. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, or even a doctoral student in physics at BU, to understand that without an assurance of getting paid, nobody would do it. I like to get paid for my work, don't you? So pay. Don't want to pay? Then spend money supporting your local no-name bands who play their own original music.
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