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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Congress, the new copyright bully
By Eric Goldman, netnews.com, August 6, 2003
http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5060347.html

"So Rep. Howard Berman jokes that he "probably" does not favor the death
penalty for infringers, Sen. Orrin Hatch half-jokes that he would like
to blow up the computers of infringers and Rep. John Carter wants to see
infringing college kids thrown in jail for 33 months.
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Court blocks some file-trading subpoenas
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 8, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5061868.html?tag=lh

"A Massachusetts court has blocked several recording industry subpoenas
that are aimed at college song swappers, saying the universities
involved are not immediately required to divulge the alleged file
traders' identities."
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Advocates form open-source trade group
By Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com, August 6, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-7252_3-5060512.html

"Organizers of the Open Source And Industry Alliance (OSAIA) dropped by
the LinuxWorld conference on Tuesday, appealing to attendees to join and
contribute to the group, which is designed to fight efforts by
proprietary software makers to quash open-source products."
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KaZaA's Hemming Speaks Out Elusive Software Exec Fires Back at Music
Industry
By Jim Goldman, Tech Live Silicon Valley/ABCnews.com, Aug. 11, 2003
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_kazaarebutal030811.html

"S Y D N E Y, Australia,-  Her company's technology may be dragging the
entertainment industry, kicking and screaming, into a future of file
swapping, but the entertainment industry would rather drag Nikki Hemming
and her company into court"
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File-sharing subpoenas have yet to hit university students, OIT
officials say
By Jorge Valencia, Aug 7, 2003
http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2003/08/07/news6.html

"Internet service providers and several higher education institutions
across the country have been flooded with subpoenas from the Recording
Industry Association of America seeking the identities of peer-to-peer
file sharing program users."
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