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Recording Industry Plans to Accelerate Complaints About Illegal File
Sharing
By SCOTT CARLSON, Chronicle.com, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002120202t.htm

"The recording industry plans to increase the number of complaints it
lodges with colleges when it believes students are using file-sharing
programs in violation of copyright law, an entertainment-industry
official said last week."
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File-traders, studios spar in court
By John Borland, CNET News.com, December 2, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-975801.html

"Attorneys for the record industry and the movie studios sparred with
lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in federal
court Monday, as each side sought a quick resolution to a pending
copyright suit against the popular Internet companies."
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Sony to License Anti-Piracy Products
By Jon Healey, LATimes.com, December 3, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup3.4dec03,0,2890391.story?null
(registration required)

"ContentGuard Inc., a Bethesda, Md., company that provides anti-piracy
technology, is expected to announce today a deal with Sony Corp. to
license its digital rights management products."
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Jury selected in digital copyright case 
BY Reuters, Siliconvalley.com, Dec. 02, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/4651480.htm

"A jury was selected Monday in a first-of-its-kind criminal case pitting
a Russian software company against U.S. prosecutors who charge one of
its programs was written to subvert copyright protections under a
controversial four-year-old law."
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China's Sohu Loses Copyright Infringement Lawsuit 
By Asia Pulse, December 3
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021203/16/35c9i.html

" A precedent-setting legal battle between China's top two Internet
portals ended on December 2 as Sohu was found guilty of pirating online
pictures and articles from its rival Sina."
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FatWallet Challenges Abusive DMCA Claims and Protects Users' Privacy
Rights
Dec/02/2002
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid=129657

" In a blatant misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, over the
past two weeks, a group of national retailers forced FatWallet.com to
remove Day After Thanksgiving sales information from its site. In
letters sent to FatWallet, each retailer claimed that the Copyright Act
gives it a monopoly over this price data."
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