MP3.com Loses Copyright Case SEPTEMBER 06, 16:16 EDT NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge ruled Wednesday that MP3.com willfully violated copyrights of music companies and awarded Universal Music Group $25,000 per CD totalling $118 million, a penalty that could reach as much as $3.6 billion. Internet companies ``may have a misconception that, because their technology is somewhat novel, they are somehow immune from the ordinary applications of laws of the United States, including copyright law,'' U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said. MP3.com's lawyer, Michael Rhodes, told the judge a day earlier that a penalty of any more than $500 per CD was a virtual ``death sentence'' for the company. Rakoff said he could have given an award of as much as $150,000 per CD but chose a number considerably lower because Universal had not specified how it lost money because of MP3.com's infringements, even though it could have done so. Rakoff was urged to award Universal up to $450 million, saying MP3.com had copied between 5,000 and 10,000 of the company's CDs. MP3.com put the number at 4,700, which would put the damage award at $118 million. The case could end up costing MP3.com as much as $3.6 billion or roughly one-tenth the industry's annual worldwide sales -- once it is forced to pay all the other companies whose copyrights it had violated when it created an online catalogue of 80,000 CDs.

Message from DiCK CaNNoN to MP3.com: Shame, shame... 80,000 CDs is fucking ridiculous. My OWN PERSONAL library of MP3s is only about 500-600 CDs. You're gonna pay dearly for your arrogance. See ya! It's been nice raping your services for my own personal gain.
You may lie down and die now like the bi0tch-azz muthafucka you are. Fuck off, eat shit & drop dead, fags.

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"Gucci Hoochie"  Parental Advisory genre: Rap
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	Here's what happens when CaNNoN & DiCE convince a lesbian to go straight. Check out the new sex position, the "Vanilla Fudge Delight."
"Make 'Em Say Umm-Uhh Mo' Shiznit Foljrs*"  Parental Advisory genre: Rap
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	Original title "No Limit Vs. Mo' Shiznits" was rejected by MP3.COM for "gaming the system," (using a popular artist's name to go up the chart). WE'D NEVER PERFORM DESPICABLE ACTS LIKE DAT! Yeah, really... Anyway, back to the music: More hip-hop beats, more perverted lyrics, more sound effects, spoofing a "very popular" act you may know. DiCK likes the new song name better anywayz.
"Interview with DWiGHT DeViLLE - pt. 1"  Parental Advisory genre: Interviews
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	DiCK interviews DWiGHT and gets his reaction to everything RAP including VIBE Magazine's Demonic Fixations, the connection to Modern Rap Music to 1970's Blaxploitation Movies, and shocking commentary on Halle Berry's Drunk Driving Hit-and-Run Incident!

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