Recording Industry Near Deal In [MP3.com] Suit Music & MP36/8/2000; 1:57:09 PM "Several major record companies are close to a deal that would end a copyright-infringement lawsuit against online music site MP3.com in return for a cash payment of more than $100 million, sources said yesterday."File that one under "expensive mistakes".Later in the article,

In a speech to members of Congress yesterday, Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner urged lawmakers to consider requiring computer makers and Internet service providers to include in their products technology that would protect intellectual property from pirates. Eisner would like to see a system in which computers and ISPs would be programmed to check each digital copy of a movie or record for an electronic watermark before allowing a copy to be made or transfer to take place.

*shudder* I don't trust Disney with that sort of power over my computer.