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Verizon gets 14 days to ID file-swapper
By John Borland, CNET News.com, April 24, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998268.html

"  A U.S district court on Thursday ruled for a second time that Verizon
Communications must give up the identity of an anonymous Internet
subscriber accused of swapping music files online. "
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>From Tech Law Journal

District Court Rules That A DMCA ' 512(h) Subpoena for the Identity of
an P2P Infringer Does not Violate the Constitution

" 4/24. The U.S. District Court (DC) issued an order [3 pages in PDF]
and opinion [58 pages in PDF] in RIAA v. Verizon, holding that the
issuance of a subpoena by a Clerk of the District Court pursuant to 17
U.S.C. ' 512(h) to obtain the identity of an anonymous peer to peer
infringer from his ISP does not violate either the First Amendment of
the Constitution, or the justiciability requirements of Article III. The
District Court also denied Verizon's motion for stay pending appeal, but
granted a 14 day stay, to enable Verizon to seek a stay from the Appeals
Court. "
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Opinion
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/03-ms-0040.pdf
Order
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/02-ms-323a.pdf
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Linux founder opens door to DRM
By John Borland, CNET News.com, April 24, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-998292.html

" Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a
curve ball to the open-source programming community Thursday. "
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>From EFF :
Order granting defendants' motions for summary judgement - (PDF 85k)
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/030425_order_on_motions.php