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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Media firms lobby piracy controls to EU
By Matt Loney,  CNET News.com, May 24, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-922706.html

"Every CD or DVD manufactured in the European Union would have to carry 
code designed to help track down pirated discs if proposals by media 
trade groups are adopted."
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Transcript of the preliminary hearing on the proposed private copying 
tariff (held last week) BY The Canadian Copyright Board.  A formal 
hearing is scheduled for October 2002.
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004pre-b.pdf
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Audiogalaxy hit by RIAA suit
By John Borland, ZDNet News, May 24, 2002
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-922904.html

"The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a 
copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the 
industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services."
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More Coverage:
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,52807,00.html/wn_ascii
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-922729.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3336947.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1022527239482522000,00.html
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Complaint- ZOMBA RECORDING, CORP. v. AUDIOGALAXY, INC.
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/recordcos/zmbaudglxy52402cmp.pdf
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Philippine Publishing House Raided For Pirated Software
By Melvin G Calimag, Metropolitan Computer Times, 27 May 2002
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176764.html

"A well-known publisher of children's books and school textbooks was 
stunned recently when officers of the Philippines National Bureau of 
Investigation (NBI) swooped on its premises and confiscated some 10 
million Philippine pesos ($199,124) worth of computers loaded with 
unlicensed software."
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Eminem CD already pirated
By Jon Healey and Chuck Philips, BaltimoreSun.com, May 24, 2002
http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/music/bal-to.eminem24may24.story?
coll=bal%2Dfeatures%2Dheadlines


" Despite extraordinary efforts to keep it under wraps, the new CD from 
platinum-selling rapper Eminem met the same fate as every other recent 
release from a major artist: It went out for free on the Internet long 
before fans could buy it."
More Coverage:
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-9965151-
0.html?tag=ats