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DOJ Files Brief in Support of RIAA in Verizon Subpoena Matter
4/18. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief with the U.S.
District Court (DC) in RIAA v. Verizon in which it responds to certain
issues raised by Verizon, and questions propounded by the Court,
regarding the constitutionality of the ' 512(h) subpoena provisions of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The DOJ argues that the statute does not violate either the Article III
based justiciability requirements of the Constitution, or the First
Amendment's free speech clause. The DOJ argues that Verizon's motion to
quash should be denied.
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Brief-
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts2002/riaa_verizon/20030418.asp
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Hollywood Faces Key Court Battle Over DVD Copying
By Bob Tourtellotte,  April 22, 2003
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=2605233

"  Hollywood's movie studios face a key test in their battle to defend
copyright holders from digital pirates, when a federal court in
California this Friday hears a case filed by a maker of software that
allows users to copy DVDs. "
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Michigan Graduate Student Who Studies Computing Secrecy Fears
Prosecution Under New Law
By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Cronicle.com, April 23, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003042301t.htm

" A Michigan graduate student who studies how to hide online messages
and detect hacking -- a field known as steganography -- has moved his
research to a Web server in the Netherlands out of fear that it may be
illegal under a new Michigan law. "
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Recording Industry Goes After Students Over Music Sharing
By AMY HARMON, NewYorkTimes.com, April 23, 2003\
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23STUD.html

" COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Jason, a senior at the University of Maryland, ran
one of the most popular Web sites on campus out of his shoebox dorm room
here. The site let his 8,500 fellow dorm residents search for music
files, among other things, stored on one another's computers and copy
them in seconds. "
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U stuck in middle of music, movie download dispute
BY Steve Alexander, Star Tribune.com, April 23, 2003
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3841541.html

" Old copyright laws and the new realities of music and movie
downloading are colliding at the University of Minnesota , where Steve
Cawley is caught in the middle. "
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Charges laid in MP3 case
By Kate Mackenzie and Simon Hayes, Australianewsnet.com, APRIL 24, 2003
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6329862%5E15330%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

" THREE Sydney men could face up to five years' jail if found guilty of
charges of breaching copyright, following a raid relating to alleged
music piracy.

The men, who are understood to be students, were arrested yesterday when
police executed warrants at four Sydney addresses in the city's west and
south-west. "
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Microsoft CD copy protection advances
By John Borland, CNET News.com, April 23, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998066.html

" Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business
Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its
Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. "