Synopsis
The British Business as Usual stars Glenda Jackson and John Thaw as the husband-and-wife managers of a boutique. When a huge store chain purchases Jackson and Thaw's establishment, chain executive Eamon Boland is sent to check out the place. It seems, however, that he's more interested in checking out pretty boutique employee Cathy Tyson. Jackson slaps a sexual harrassment charge on Boland, who uses this contretemps as an excuse to fire her from her own store. Down but not out, Jackson conducts a determined public campaign to get her job back and to put Boland in his place. Business as Usual makes no bones about its anti-Margaret Thatcher, anti-Big Business political stance. While this aspect of the film might be lost on American viewers, the plight of Glenda Jackson's character is all too familiar.
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Business as Usual on Napster
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 4, 2001 -- Despite reports on Friday that Napster would voluntarily implement new screening technologies to filter copyright-protected material, it appeared to be business as usual on the site this weekend.
Hoping to avoid a court order that could put the company out of business altogether, Napster offered on Friday to block user access to what could amount to millions of files. "We will begin later this weekend to block the transfer of file names we have previously received from copyright holders, consistent with the 9th Circuit's ruling," Napster's CEO, Hank Barry, said in a statement on Friday.
Major record labels, music publishers, and bands like Metallica and Dr. Dre, who oppose Napster, submitted some 5,600 songs they wanted removed from the service. But according to The Hollywood Reporter and user reports, many of the songs, if not all of them, were