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Rentsmart.com • and Universal Music Grou csday, NEW YORK (AP) — The embat tled online music service MP3.com settled its dispute with the last of the five major record labels Tuesday, agreeing to pay $53.4 million to Uni versal Music Group for access to its songs. Universal is the world’s largest record company, with such artists as Dr. Dre, Eminem and Shania Twain. The settlement was announced as testimony began in the damages phase of a federal trial that had al ready determined MP3.com willful ly violated Universal’s copyrights. Under the settlement, Universal will also get the right to buy a stake in MP3.com, said MP3.com chief ex ecutive Michael Robertson. “Our shareholders should be ex cited about today’s development,” Robertson said. “It gets us out of the courtroom and into the business of delivering digital music.” The company had earlier reached settlements with the four other major companies — Warner Music Group, BMG, EMI and Sony Music Enter tainment — and had arranged licens ing deals with each of them. Hadrian Katz, Universal’s lawyer, declined to comment outside court. MP3.com was sued by the record labels over its My.MP3.com service, which allows computer users to lis- 'A 66 It gets us out of the courtroom and into the busi ness of delivering digital music.” Under Tuesday’s setlld Robertson said. Universal? warrants for the rights MP3.com stock. .VIP3.coir | rose 63 cents, or 18 percent,; the Nasdaq Stock Market. The o\ era 11 amount offer ^ ments has not been disdosti , ■tli Tithe 18 Michael Robertson MP3.com CEO ten to CDs over the Internet. Mem bers must first prove they paid for the recording by briefly inserting the CD into a computer’s CD-ROM drive. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff ruled in September that MP3.com had intentionally violated the copyrights of the music companies. He awarded Universal $25,000 per CD — or up to $250 million by Universal’s count. Robertson said it falls wifei $170 million the company cM ere es( for legal costs. TJniicd ' Some lawsuits with smalls %' ecUnl remain to be resolved bum ® a,mcnt expected to be a threat toMF ^'^'y* e ability to stay in business. ur My.MP3.com differs fn j|CP a y ' wildly pdpular file-stt f-kvel jo method employed by Nap W 16 uni which users share their mov.Bted fir the Internet w'hile Napsterx n0n a nn the clearinghouse. they Last month, media giantI W workt mann said it would join wittikwealms in developing a membership-ttd for e music distribution system feBic con guarantee royalties to artists. Wept sti Other music industry giatvjiPn No sued Napster in federal cc ffiional I copyright infringementands tiled that have the service shut down, tudents u late un USS Cole guards instructe not to shoot unless fired upoE gmzei same c nasa i [Private new r dards, i be the have j®n” will While Rules of engagement followed even after bombs explorn^ under attack. But even in the aftermath of the bon ,i 0 it the a WASHINGTON (AP) — Sailors guarding the USS Cole when terrorists bombed it last mpnth in Yemen did not have ammunition in their weapons and were in structed not to shoot unless fired upon. The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Crew members told the newspaper that their “rules of 66 We would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two foreigners than losing 17 American sailors.” “with blood still on my face,” he said he was told:"Mye the prii the mles of engagement, no shooting unless were;: ^ nie the Rules of engagement aboard a U.S. warshipai?B^ ccor( by its captain following Navy guidelines. Pentafe^ a j e hy t ficials will not publicly discuss the specific rules:! Sheldc feet aboard the Cole. But senior officers said i: American gressional testimony that the ship filed a de hue security plan, which they think was followed, tween fac “If we had shot those people, we’d have go:’Who shou trouble for it,” said Petty Officer JenniferKwcMght be t sonar technician. “That’s what’s frustratingaboafe.'tfejects o would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two'|ip 0S e j s — Jennifer Kudrick Petty Officer on USS Cole 'ironment Substa: engagement” prevent them from firing without obtaining permission from the ship’s captain or another officer. Suicide bombers in a small, explosives-laden boat approached the Cole while it was refueling Oct. 12 in Aden harbor and detonated the explosives, ripping a 40-by-40-foot hole in the steel hull. The blast killed 17 American sailors and injured 39. Petty Officer John Washak told the Post he was man ning an M-60 machine gun shortly after the Cole was hit. Washak said he waved the weapon at a second small boat that was approaching, but a senior chief petty officer or dered him to turn the gun away. Washak said he protested, fearing that the ship was still ice sco duate r /e not c ispute the eigners than losing 17 American sailors.” Navy spokesman, Cmdr. J.D. Gradeckv comment to the Post about the crew's accounts,ci^duate s the ongoing investigation. The Post interviewed about 20 members of the slf crew. Some said FBI investigators have toldtheni- Cole may have been secretly boarded and surveyt" Islamic militants — possibly including oneoftlfe ns, cide bombers — as it passed through theSuezCtf few days before the attack. The FBI also has been questioning crew me^ about the behavior of the Yemeni pilot who guide: Cole into port; some described him as “agitated.'Se crew members also said they thought Yemeni h workers acted suspiciously, the newspaper reportet Crew members also said their ship may have looked over by Islamic militants as it passed throus Suez Canal on the way to Yemen. News in Brief Isuzu recalls SUV Troopers WASHINGTON (AP) — Isuzu Motors Ltd. is re calling some 2000 and 2001 model year Troop ers after the sport utility vehicle leaked fuel in crash tests by an insur ance industry group. The recall affects 18,460 vehicles — all 2000 Troopers with four- wheel drive and 2001 models with four-wheel drive that were produced before the problem was discovered. The Troopers leaked fuel in two of three front crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which re leased the results Tues day. Fuel leaks are con sidered a serious problem because they can result in a fire if ignited. In the first test con ducted on a 2000 Troop er on June 21, a fuel line separated. Isuzu engi neers found a design problem and issued a voluntary recall of the 2000 vehicles. NTSB looks into school bus safety WASHINGTON (AP) — A government safety pan el recommended on Tuesday that school bus emergency doors« protruding metal be redesigned and seat cushions be cured with fail-safe 1: es to protect passeng* in an accident. The recommendatu from the National Tra: portation Safety were prompted by an vestigation into a scl bus accident in upst New York that injured students and their etii erones on Oct. 21,19! The Texas A&M Debate Society PRESENTS: Resolved: The United States should significantly JOl n girls Jodie in M ster, E d. Thei , who out Rc holies, ta to s h their s were y had heart tors s iuld cer re surg 'gery w r , wh ie’s he The tw dia attc Hy sine isider s .# system of electing a President. ents’ a Nation i j wron; [ion wo d they i alter its Vm 'Ponenl «■ fev w ■» Ik Date: Thursday, November 16 Time: 7:30pm Place: Rudder 308 : kontl Ho “Id ■he of a Bvery ii >'1: Tpersi ls ,but, 'ttnean Hholi Come and enjoy this public debate brought to you by the Texas A&f 1 Debate Society and the Department of Speech Communication. ffolem ^eth Jtowii lh ii