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Senator calls for copy-protection tags
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, March 26, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-994176.html

"Software, music and movies that employ copy-protection schemes must be
prominently labeled with consumer warnings, according to a bill
introduced in Congress this week. "
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Music Industry Drops Anti-Piracy Pamphlets on Campus
By Bernhard Warner, Reuters.com,  March 27, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2458060

" The music industry said on Thursday it had begun cascading pamphlets
on universities across the globe in its latest blitz against online
piracy."
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What's So Free About This DVD?
By Michelle Delio, WiredNews.com, Mar. 28, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58253,00.html

"Go to any gathering of open-source developers and someone is bound to
tell you that free software isn't free -- not free as in "free lunch,"
anyway. Free as in "free speech." Such politics have sparked another
technological transformation, this time freeing a DVD from the
constraints imposed by copyright-protection technology. "
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Analyst: Internet file-sharing bigger than record business
By JIM WASSERMAN, Sfgate.com, March 27, 2003
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/27/financial2101EST0174.DTL

" Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the
multibillion dollar recording industry with a growth trend that has
become "fundamentally unstoppable," a media analyst told a state Senate
committee exploring Internet piracy on Thursday. "