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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Digital copying rules may change
By Noel C. Paul, ChristianScienceMonitor.com, August 19, 2002 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0819/p14s01-wmcn.html

"In a few years, Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD,
watch a recorded DVD at a friend's house, or store a copy of a
television show for more than a day."
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Web site flouts linking bans
By Paul Festa, CNET News.com, August 21, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954612.html

"Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in
Chicago, Ill., is the man behind Don't Link to Us, a Web site that
exists merely to flout what it terms "stupid linking policies."
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Film industry to try movie theater, video messages to combat Piracy
By AP, SiliconValley.com, Aug. 20, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3904946.htm

"A leading theater chain has agreed to run before movies public service
announcements that warn against copyright infringement,"
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DOJ to swappers: Law's not on your side
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, August 20, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html

"The U.S. Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting
peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday."
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GOING AFTER INDIVIDUALS FOR COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS:
The New Bill That Would Grant Copyright Owners A "License To Hack"
Peer-To-Peer Networks
By JULIE HILDEN, FindLaw.com,  Aug. 20, 2002
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20020820.html
 
"Their decentralization makes it all the harder for copyright owners to
target the new networks via lawsuits, the way they targeted Napster.
Indeed, an injunction against the new networks probably would be useless
unless it named every single individual user."
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HOW THE MOTION PICTURE AND RECORDING INDUSTRIES ARE LOSING THE
COPYRIGHT WAR BY FIGHTING MISDIRECTED BATTLES
By PETER K. YU, Findlaw.com, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2002
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020815_yu.html

"In late July, Representative Howard Berman introduced a bill that, if
enacted, would strengthen copyright protection in an extraordinary way.
The bill would allow movie studios and record companies to hack into
personal computers and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks if they
suspect that infringing materials are being circulated."