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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Record Companies Sue New Jersey Flea Market
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI, NewYorkTimes.com, October 10, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/nyregion/10PIRA.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1066053637-atyEFwQZeOMFjimBAkf8aQ
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"As shoppers at the Columbus Farmers' Market browsed through table after
table of battery-operated nose-hair trimmers, $10 bras, Spice Girls
posters, athletic socks and smoked pigs' ears on Thursday, there were
few signs that they were on the front lines of the recording industry's
latest effort to discourage music piracy."
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Student faces suit over key to CD locks
By John Borland. CNET News.com, October 9, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5089168.html

"SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said
Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week
showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a
computer's Shift key."
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More Coverage:
SunnComm CEO Says Princeton Report Critical of its MediaMax CD Copy
Management Technology Contains Erroneous Assumptions and Conclusions
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20031009005573&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view
(or see <http://tinyurl.com/qdku>).
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Sunncomm backs down from shift key prosecution
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12041
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Open Up Your Wallets, Music Fans, Napster Is Back
By Derek Caney, Reuters.com, October 9, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3589184

"Napster, the file-swapping service that set music fans on their ears
and sent the music industry into apoplectic fits, is resurrecting itself
as a pay service two years after its free service collapsed under the
weight of lawsuits."
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What Price Music?
By AMY HARMON, NewYorkTimes.com, October 12, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/arts/music/12HARM.html?ei=5062&en=81287b270384c694&ex=1066536000&adxnnl=1&partner=GOOGLE&adxnnlx=1066054768-xeDkNqvV0aa2r4KBY9egJw
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"Since the introduction of vinyl records after World War II, recorded
music has assumed many shapes and sizes, each one coming with a higher
price tag than the last. Eight-track tapes cost a dollar more than LP's
when they rose to popularity in the late 1960's and cassettes commanded
a premium over eight-tracks. When CD's debuted in the mid-1980's, record
labels sold the shiny discs for $18, more than double the price of what
they charged for the same music on LP's and cassettes that cost more to
manufacture."
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