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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers
By JOHN LELAND, NewYorktimes.com, September 14, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/fashion/14COPY.html?8hpib=&pagewanted=print&position=

"The week the music industry brought suit against 261 users of Internet
file-sharing services, Donald L. McCabe was in St. Louis to talk about a
different form of digital copying. Mr. McCabe, a Rutgers University
professor, has made a career of studying the cheating of American high
school and college students. His most recent study found that cheating
was spreading almost like file-sharing. Of more than 18,000 students
surveyed, 38 percent said they had lifted material from the Internet for
use in papers in the last year."
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Crackdown May Send Music Traders Into Software Underground
By SAUL HANSELL, Newyorktimes.com, September 15, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/technology/15DARK.html
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Some people may well be intimidated by the 261 lawsuits that the music
industry has filed against Internet users it says are illegally sharing
songs. But hundreds of software developers are racing to create new
systems, or modify existing ones, to let people continue to swap music -
hidden from the prying eyes of the Recording Industry Association of
America, or from any other investigators."
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Copy-protected CDs take step forward
By John Borland, CNET News.com, September 12, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5075656.html

"For the first time in the United States, BMG Music will release a music
CD that's loaded with anticopying protection, a move that opens a new
round of technological experimentation for record labels."
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Cheers and Jeers for the Recording Industry
By Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com, September 15, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12605-2003Sep15.html?referrer=email

"The Recording Industry Association of America's right to pursue a heavy
handed legal attack on music pirates. Stealing is stealing, whether it's
breaking into a home or downloading a file on the Internet."
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UNR among first to monitor students computer use
By  ASSOCIATED PRESS, lasvegasun.com, September 14, 2003
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2003/sep/14/091410802.html

"When the music industry filed lawsuits last week against 261 people for
trading songs online, students living on the University of Nevada, Reno
campus were unlikely targets."
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From: SIVACRACY.NET
September 15, 2003

Copyright & Free Expression

"The Free Expression Policy Project has just published a fully revised
and updated edition of "The Progress of Science and Useful Arts" Why
Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom - a summary of the major
controversies over file-sharing, fair use, the ever-receding public
domain, the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," and more. "
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Available at:
www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright2dexsum.html
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