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Subject: In The News
From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:31:37 -0400
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Music piracy investigators herald AU copyright case
By Iain Ferguson, ZDNet Australia.com,  04 September 2003
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20278232,00.htm

"The head of an Australian music piracy investigations unit has warned
that a recent court case in which three young men pleaded guilty to
criminal charges over online music piracy has "exploded many of the
myths" related to the Internet and copyright infringement."
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Universal to Cut Prices of Its CD's
By AMY HARMON, NewYorktimes.com, September 4, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/business/media/04MUSI.html?th
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"Battered by online piracy, the Universal Music Group, the world's
largest record company, said yesterday that it would cut prices on
compact discs by as much as 30 percent in an aggressive attempt to lure
consumers back into record stores."
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Copy protected CDs illegal in France? Not quite
By Drew Cullen, theregister, 03/09/2003
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/32636.html

"Big news from France today where EMI has landed in the soup for selling
'defective' copy protected CDs."

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