A federal judge found Wednesday that MP3.com Inc. willfully infringed on copyrights belonging to Seagram Co.’s Universal Music Group in a ruling that could cost the online music company between $118 million to $250 million in damages.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ordered San Diego-based MP3.com to pay Universal $25,000 for each compact disc that was unlawfully copied, reports Reuters. See also the statement of Cary Sherman, RIAA general counsel. More from CNet.

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Embarcadero’s ER/Studio, Rapid SQL and DBArtisan database management solutions for Red Hat Linux, reports Business Wire.

All Linux Devices reports, the pros and cons of “free,” or open source, software
and its role in the embedded industry will be an opening day highlight of the
Embedded Systems Conference scheduled for Monday, September 25 at 6:00.

LinuxNews quotes, “The purpose of Bayonne is to provide a service daemon which can automatically process telephone callers on a GNU operating system in an extensible manner.” says Bayonne’s developer, David Sugar.

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore proposed a comprehensive
economic plan for the U.S. that would create 10 million new high-technology jobs in the next 10 years, from Newsbytes.

According to this article on dbusiness.com, Atipa Corp. has seen the future, and it’s running on a Linux operating system.

The USA Today reports, five groups of researchers have bowed out of the competition to evaluate the so-called Carnivore Internet surveillance system.

CNET News reports, home furnishings retailer IKEA closed its online catalog order site last night after a privacy breach made the personal information of tens of thousands of its customers available online.

Reuters reports, hand-held computer maker Palm Inc. said on Wednesday it is forming Palm Ventures Inc. to make investments in companies that will support the Palm operating platform.

Reuters is reporting, the justice minister says the levies are needed to boost royalty payments to musicians, authors and filmmakers.