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TVT Records vs. MP3.com Saga
Posted by Heidi Chambers on April 9, 2001 at 4:03 PM   (printer friendly)

MP3.com executives must be in shock today as they learned that jurors who ordered the MP3 site to pay $300,000 to Tee Vee Toons Records have reevaluated their math and discovered what they really meant was $3 million. Privately owned Tee Vee Toons Records claimed that MP3.com's Instant Listening service violated TVT copyrights by making TVT songs available to Net surfers for listening online.

After seeing press releases and news stories about the case, jurors on the eight-woman panel told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the error in their calculations. "The total was supposed to be between two and three million. This matter is far from obvious in how it should be adjudicated," said Rakoff.

Rakoff called emergency hearing with the jurors and lawyers for MP3.com and Tee Vee Toons where he interviewed them in private and said he would issue a ruling in several weeks.


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smelv1n  
Date: April 9, 2001 @ 5:00 PM
here's what you do. start you're own little recording company, get your friend to sign, make it so people aren't aloud to listen to your songs online, then sue mp3.com once they upload their shit.

Anonymous  
Date: April 9, 2001 @ 6:57 PM
Un-fucking-believable. How could anyone make a mistake like this? This has to be a first!

Fozzie  
Date: April 9, 2001 @ 9:09 PM
banks make these kind of mistakes.

yellowbeard  
Date: April 9, 2001 @ 9:28 PM
Tee Vee Toons?
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w w w t f
w w w t fff
wwwww t f

yellowbeard  
Date: April 9, 2001 @ 9:28 PM
that was ugly

richieZ  
Date: April 10, 2001 @ 6:06 AM
you have got to be kidding me. what is this world coming too?? this makes me want to throw up!