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House Fights P2P Risks
By Reuters , Wirednews.com, Oct. 08, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60752,00.html

" The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require the
government to set up its computers so they are not exposed to security
risks associated with peer-to-peer networks."
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File-Sharing Services Have Plan to Pay: Group Says It Can Protect Music
Industry
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post.com, October 9, 2003; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A301-2003Oct8.html

"A group representing the Internet's most popular free music-sharing
service has come up with a business plan that it says would stop piracy
by allowing consumers to legally buy copyright-protected music, though
the music industry remains skeptical."
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Suit
By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters.com, October 6, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3565942

" Legg Mason Inc. LM.N , a money manager and brokerage, on Monday said a
federal jury ordered it to pay about $20 million to stock market
analytical firm Lowry's Reports Inc. in a copyright lawsuit."
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Copyright and authors by John Ewing
First Monday, volume 8, number 10 (October 2003),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_10/ewing/index.html

For the past several hundred years, publishers have promoted a
simplistic view of copyright Copyright is a matter of fairness to
authors, they argue. "
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Subscriptions, Online Stores Vie for Music Fans 
By Sue Zeidler, Reuters.com, October 8, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3581780

" On the eve of the widely watched relaunch of Napster, the music
industry's first casualty in its war against online piracy, another
battle is raging in music cybersales and it's between two legal formats:
paid subscriptions and a la carte stores, industry sources said on
Wednesday."
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Music Label Cashes in by Sharing
By Chris Ulbrich , Wired.com, Oct. 08, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60732,00.html

"As the major record companies scramble to put a lid on peer-to-peer
file-sharing networks like Morpheus and Kazaa, an upstart California
record label is trying to revolutionize the industry by taking the
opposite approach: making file sharing the heart of its business.