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An attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) withdrew the case Friday, calling the move a "gesture of good faith" but writing in a letter to Ward's attorney that the organization would continue to look into the matter and reserved the right to refile.
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In other words .... "Since we fucked you over in our total incompetance, and are scared shitless you'd win a tremendous amount of money from us in a countersuit (plus create a precedence for more suites) we'll just run away while still postering we were right."
Business 101: Things not to do ...
Faced with competition (or a new mediium for piracy), and losing money, spend more than the amount of money you are already losing, increasing your losses, at the same time creating such hatred that you inspire more people to not spend money, causing you more losses, therefore answer that by throwing even great amounts of money at it with lawyers and court costs, to create still more enemies and have the public totally turn against you, all with the expectation that doing so will make you profitable again .... rather than leveraging the medium to your advantage, stemming losses, finding a new revenue source, and possibly becoming even more profitable.