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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Battle heats up over rights
BY Reuters News Agency, Globe and Technology.com, September 9, 2002
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20020909/gtcopy/Technology/techBN/

"Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp. and nearly 200 other companies from the
computer hardware, software and security industries are working on
technologies designed to protect data in computers from being tampered
with by intruders." (Contributed by Stephen Davies)
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Yahoo, ISPs enter Net privacy fray
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, September 10, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957332.html

"Yahoo and Internet service providers have sided with Verizon
Communications in its legal spat with the recording industry over
revealing the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate."
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RIAA, file-swappers ask for trial's end
By John Borland, CNET News.com, September 9, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957227.html

"Both sides want to end the copyright infringement lawsuit against
popular file-swapping services Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster
quickly--they just disagree on who should win."
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We'll Sell You Tools to Steal
By LARRY BLASKO, FindLaw.com, Sept. 9, 2002
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/9-9-2002/20020909060014_10.html

" The computer software industry is firmly against violation of
copyright - but it sells software that makes the practice rather easy.
The latest demonstration of that irony comes from Cakewalk, the
Boston-based music software giant, in Cakewalk Pyro 2003."
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Audiogalaxy swaps music services
By John Borland , CNET News.com, September 9, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957166.html

"One-time file-swapping powerhouse Audiogalaxy, hobbled by a legal
settlement with record labels, has launched a legal music offer in place
of its old download service."
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Warner gets into Web video-on-demand
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY.com, 9/09/2002
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2002-09-09-flix_x.htm

" Broadband Internet subscribers got their first real opportunity Monday
to legally download movies distributed by a major studio?.Warner Bros.
agreed to offer a few films to Web-based video-on-demand service
CinemaNow and split the revenue in a deal that runs to year's end."