A federal district court has thrown out Universal Music Group's
lawsuit against Troy Augusto, who had the gall to sell pre-release CDs on eBay. More and more promos are copy-protected, or released sans artwork, and soon labels may just issue MP3s (if anything) to critics and other industry hangers-on with entitlement issues, but it's good to know people are allowed to get rid of the crappy promotional CDs they already have. Plus, by stipulation this decision means that people are even allowed to throw them away.
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A report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes to two conclusions: first, that the RIAA's lawsuit campaign isn't exactly serving as a deterrent from file-swapping; and second, the real answer to the piracy problem is flat-fee, unlimited peer-to-peer filesharing that all the labels will participate in. [