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New music rules are needed
By Fred von Lohmann, Daily Princetonian, April 14, 2003
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/04/14/opinion/7930.shtml

" Suing college students. Forcing ISPs to rat out customers. Petitioning
Congress for unprecedented vigilante powers. Deploying armies of lawyers
to sue technology companies. "
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Navy Disciplines Midshipmen Pirates
By Roy Mark, internetnews.com, April 17, 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2192611

" Online music and movie piracy cost 85 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen a
series of sanctions including demerits, extra work assignments, and loss
of privileges and leave. In a much publicized raid last November,
academy officials seized almost 100 computers from students suspected of
downloading unauthorized copies of songs and films. "
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Madonna Has Choice Words for Music Pirates
By Brian Garrity, Reuters.com, April 17, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2584872

"  The Madonna camp is looking to clamp down on online peer-to-peer
piracy of her new Maverick album, "American Life," by flooding
file-sharing networks with decoy files. "
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Record labels sue VC firm over Napster support
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Mercury News/Silliconvalley.com, Apr. 22, 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5688417.htm

" Two record labels filed suit Monday against Hummer Winblad Venture
Partners, accusing the venture capital firm of contributing to
widespread Internet music piracy through its financial support of
Napster. "
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Students Lose Web Use in Copyright Case
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, Seattlepi.com, April 21, 2003
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Penn%20State%20Piracy

"  Penn State deprived 220 students of high-speed Internet connections
in their dorms after it found they were sharing copyrighted material,
the university said Monday. "
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Fed favors record labels over Verizon
By Reuters, Cnetnews.com, April 18, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-997568.html

" The U.S. government positioned itself with the recording industry in
its dispute with Verizon Communications on Friday, saying a
digital-copyright law invoked by record labels to track down Internet
song-swappers did not violate the U.S. Constitution. "
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Court blocks security conference talk
By John Borland, CNET News.com, April 15, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-996836.html

" A pair of students were blocked by a state court from presenting
information at a Georgia security and hackers' conference on how to
break into and modify a university electronic transactions system. "
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Creativity and the Public Domain: Does Copyright Protect Too Much or Too
Little?
http://www.abcny.org/calendar/2003_5/event_0505b.html
May 5, 2003: 42 West 44 St, New York City