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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Digital Resources in Education
By Arun Kumar Tripathi, Ubiquity.com
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_3.html

"How does technology change learning and teaching in formal and informal
education?"
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Piracy:

Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
By Jane Black, BusinessWeek.com, JUNE 12, 2002
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020612_1108.htm

"New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated
music and movies a prohibitively costly habit"
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Rhapsody Misses Too Many Notes
By Leslie Walker, Washingtonpost.com, Thursday, June 13, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41420-2002Jun12.html

"Internet music is still a big tease, like an outdoor concert you can
hear faintly in the distance but can't find no matter how far you walk."
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Net bid to curb music piracy
Variety.com,  Jun. 14, 2002, Free Trial
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=LN4626-GD10-015G-Y1PR-00000-00&cs=1

"THE world's two biggest record companies will pedal ultra-cheap music
on the Internet in a bid to combat music piracy.

But music industry experts say Australian Net users are years away from
having access to it."
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Authorities crack $7M online software piracy ring
AP, USAToday.com, 06/13/2002
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/13/net-piracy.htm

"Twenty-one people in 14 states and Canada are facing federal charges in
an Internet computer software, game and movie piracy ring, authorities
in Las Vegas announced Wednesday."
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Record Biz Has Burning Question
By Brad King, WiredNews.com, June 14, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53157,00.html

"But the same technologies that pirates use to steal -- -- file sharing,
CD-burning and computers -- are driving legitimate sales by consumers,
according to research from market research company Ipsos-Reid."