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Both MTV, a unit of Viacom Inc, and MusicNet, a joint venture of RealNetworks and three labels, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, EMI Group Plc and Warner Music, declined to comment. MTV has indicated before that it wanted to enter the digital music arena, a market which is gaining momentum with the advent of popular services like Apple Computer Inc's popular iTunes service. MusicNet is a business-to-business company that charges its… Read More

Next Tuesday, music labels and publishers will face off against Bertelsmann AG in federal court in San Francisco over claims the German media company's 2000 investment in Napster kept the file-swapping service operating eight months longer than it would have done otherwise. The lawsuits claim the extra lease on life promoted wide-scale piracy and cost the music industry $17 billion in lost sales. The Bertelsmann cases were first… Read More

…where it claims the networks are being used to illegally trade copies of digital music files. The Recording Industry Association of America said its member companies filed suit against two students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and against one student each at Princeton University and Michigan Technological University. The RIAA has actively used the courts to pursue digital music pirates after a 9 percent dip in CD sales in 2002… Read More