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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Record Industry Will Sue Only Students Who Download 'Substantial'
Numbers of Songs
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com,  August 21, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/08/2003082101t.htm

"The recording industry's campaign of lawsuits against people who
violate copyright will not target college students who download a few
songs, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America
has told Congress."
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Recording Industry Seeks Ruling Appeal
By Alex Veiga, Washingtonpost.com, August 19, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17094-2003Aug19.html?referrer=email

"LOS ANGELES -- A group of entertainment companies have asked a federal
appeals court to overturn a landmark court decision that short-circuited
their efforts to sue two computer file-sharing software distributors for
the illegal online swapping of songs and movies by their users."
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File swapper fights RIAA subpoena
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 21, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5066754.html

"An anonymous California computer user went to court Thursday to
challenge the recording industry's file-trading subpoenas, charging that
they are unconstitutional and violate her right to privacy."
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Lawsuit Threats Seen Curbing Online Music Piracy
By Sue Zeidler, Reuters.com, August 21, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3318533

" Music piracy over the Web has declined since the record industry
started threatening to sue individual users of popular but unauthorized
file-sharing networks, several research groups said on Thursday."
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The Quiet War Over Open-Source
By Jonathan Krim, Washingtonpost.com, August 21, 2003; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23422-2003Aug20.html?referrer=email

"Every day now, it seems, we do battle with technology. If it isn't
spam, it's worms. If it isn't the worms, it's viruses, or hacking, or
identity theft. Sometimes, it's the gadgets and software we buy that are
still too hard to use."