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Online piracy criminal prosecution hailed as a world first
BY AFP,yahoo New UK,  September 7, 2003
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030907/323/e7q4v.html

" Three Sydney men face jail after pleading guilty last week to breaking
copyright laws in what the Australian recording industry believes is the
world's first criminal prosecution for online music piracy."
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Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free
By STEVE LOHR, Newyorktimes.com, September 9, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/technology/09FREE.html?ex=1378440000&en=b01b3cfccc3222dc&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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"With the club of lawsuits and the olive branch of an amnesty program,
the music industry is waging a campaign against online piracy that
relies on both public relations and economics to attack the idea that
everything in cyberspace can be free."
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Why the RIAA's "Amnesty" Offer is a Sham
By EFF.org, (September 9, 2003)
http://www.eff.org/share/amnesty.php

"While the RIAA would like you to believe otherwise, their offer of
protection is largely illusory. In reality, the RIAA cannot actually
protect anyone from all civil suits, and individuals who sign these
affidavits may open themselves up to criminal prosecution."
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Press Release of Senator Coleman
Monday, September 8, 2003
COLEMAN RESPONDS TO AMNESTY PROPOSAL BY RECORDING INDUSTRY
http://www.senate.gov/~coleman/newsroom/pressapp/record.cfm?id=210717
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RIAA vs. the People
By Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com, September 9, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47297-2003Sep9.html?referrer=email

"The Recording Industry Association of America made good on its promise
to prosecute Americans who engage in the illegal downloading and trading
of pirated music, filing 261 copyright violation suits yesterday. "
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12-year-old settles music swap lawsuit
By CNN.com,  September 9, 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music.swap.settlement/index.html

" A day after being sued for illegally sharing music files through the
Internet, a 12-year-old girl has settled with the Recording Industry
Association of America."
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Elderly man, schoolgirl, professor among file-swapping defendants
By The Associated Press, Usatoday.com, 9/9/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-09-09-riaa-defendants_x.htm

"The targets of the first lawsuits against music fans who share songs on
the Internet include an elderly man in Texas who rarely uses his
computer, a Yale University professor, a 12-year-old Manhattan girl and
an unemployed woman in New York who says she didn't know she was
breaking the law.
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SPARC PARTNERS WITH NEW LABOR STUDIES JOURNAL:  Entire editorial board
moves to new journal
BY Alison Buckholtz, sparc@xxxxxxx, September 10, 2003
http://www.arl.org/sparc

"SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today
announced a partnership with Labor: Studies in Working Class History in
the Americas, a new journal founded by the entire editorial board of
Labor History, a commercial title owned by Taylor and Francis."