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Music industry discloses some methods used to track downloaders
By Associated Press, USAtoday.com, 8/27/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-08-27-riaa-technique_x.htm

" The recording industry provided its most detailed glimpse to date
Wednesday into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as
part of its secretive campaign to cripple music piracy over the
Internet."
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To Fight Music Piracy, Industry Goes to Schools
By Rebecca Dana, Washington Post.com, August 28, 2003; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56352-2003Aug27.html?referrer=email

"Steve Morris, a 19-year-old American University sophomore and avowed
music pirate, spent part of his summer teaching his grandmother how to
use the popular file-sharing program Kazaa."
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RIAA, studios gain P2P legal aid
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 26, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5068421.html

"Hollywood studios and record labels are getting allies in their quest
to overturn a court ruling that said file-swapping software companies
aren't responsible for the copyright infringement of their users."
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Judge: File-swapping tools are legal
By John Borland,  CNET News.com, April 25, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998363.html?tag=nl

"A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to
file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much
of the record industry and movie studios' lawsuit against the two
companies."
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Businesses boosting anti-P2P software
By John Borland, CNET News.com, August 27, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-5068950.html

"Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional
Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow
networks early this year."