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RIAA to sue inventors of the Transistor
 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced last week that following its lawsuits against providers of peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as Napster it will also be filing lawsuits against John Bardeen, the inventor of the transistor.
In the same way that P to P which enables people to share files from one computer to another enables some people to illegally swap music, the transistor, they claim, because it is contained in radio sets, tape recorders, CD engravers and personal computer chips has "enabled illegal distribution of copyrighted music."
The lawsuit requests that all patents for the use of the transistor be handed over to the RIAA for "safe management."
This is bad news not only for anyone who copies music but also for anyone who enjoys TV, uses a dishwasher or listens to the radio because any victory in this law suit could put the world back to pre-transistor days, the thirties.
But the RIAA is un-phazed.
"The record industry must protect itself and the needs of its artists. The world is already learning to live without Peer to peer file-sharing… If the world needs to live without mobile phones, microwave ovens and automatic washing machines to restore record company profits to levels we enjoyed in the past then that's just the way it is."
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