June 1, 2007 10:09 AM PDT
Coop's Corner Podcast: Misunderstanding Napster's legacy
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CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Major League Baseball's criticism of Slingbox is off-base, and a missed business opportunity.
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Slingbox has been a boon for tens of thousands of baseball fans who want to keep tabs on their local teams. But now Major League Baseball is making threatening noises about suing Sling Media.
For CNET News.com, this calls up much of the similar sturm und drang that surrounded the arrival of Napster on the scene in 1999. And just like the music industry, which never recovered from its late embrace of new technology, the lords of baseball are on their way to making a similar mistake.
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