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An Appeal to Honor in Fight Against Internet Piracy
By AMY HARMON, NewYorktimes.com, February 24, 2003

"Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of
America, has decided to take the battle against Internet piracy to a
higher moral ground."
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Roxio taps Fanning for Napster take two
By John Borland, CNET News.com, February 24, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985748.html

"Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help
CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but
with a difference."
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'Honest Thief' confronts music industry
By Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com, February 21, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985484.html

"A Dutch company calling itself an "honest thief" has become the latest
threat to an entertainment and recording industry beset by swelling
numbers of file-swapping services."
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Purdue cracks down on downloading
By Jenny Jones, PurdueExponent.org, 02-21-2003
http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date=2003/02/24&section=campus&storyid=illegaldownloads

"With the recent flare of copyright infringement allegations, the
University is cracking down on illegal downloading by sending out
letters or making phone calls to students, warning them that downloading
copyrighted materials, such as music, movies and games, is against
University policy - not to mention the law."
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Four Remaining Questions About Copyright Law After Eldred
By Peter K. Yu, Gigalaw.com
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2003-all/yu-2003-02-all.html

Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Copyright Tem
Extension Act is controversial, evoking strong feelings among copyright
owners, lawyers and academics. Yet, in this author's view, the decision
is neither ground-breaking nor different from prior Supreme Court
precedents in the field of copyright law. In this article, Peter K. Yu
raises and discusses four important questions about copyright law in
light of Eldred v. Ashcroft."
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Media Copyright Law Put to Unexpected Uses, LATimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dmca23feb23,1,4074563.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness
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Congressman May Not Reintroduce Internet Piracy Bill
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-berman21feb21,1,4879496.story

"Rep. Howard L. Berman said he may abandon his controversial proposal to
help Hollywood battle Internet piracy, in part because of complaints
from an unexpected source: Hollywood. Berman introduced a bill in July
to give movie studios, record companies and other copyright holders
limited immunity from lawsuits if they used technology to block piracy
on file-sharing networks such as Kazaa or Gnutella." From GigaLaw.com