weeks - 2:20 am on Nov 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I remember in the early days of the web, one wag noted that several business models were set up where the channel was a player in the action. "Warren Buffet makes a phone call to sell 1000 shares of stock for $1 million and hangs up. The phone rings and the phone company is on the line saying, "You owe us $100,000 on that transaction."

It doesn't work that way.

Why doesn't Universal sue the ISPs? Or the computer makers (that's a better example) that makes the technology available. (This was tried with audio tape, I believe.)

If the makers of audio tape put ads on their boxes, that wouldn't change the model.

Universal has no case.