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APEC tackles online piracy
By Correspondents in Bangkok, AustraliaNews Net, OCTOBER 22, 2003
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7634938%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

"RAMPANT piracy caused by the enormous popularity of the internet and
technological advances needs to be countered with a major rethink by
governments and business, experts said at this week's APEC summit."
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Congressional Caucus to Examine Entertainment Piracy
By David McGuire, washingtonpost.com, October 21, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60054-2003Oct21.html?referrer=email

"The aggressive crackdown on movie, music and software piracy on the
Internet has been a headline grabber during the past six months, but a
new group of congressional lawmakers is focusing instead on trampling
the rampant copyright infringement taking place in broad daylight
overseas."
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Four companies show home entertainment system that can download on their
own
By Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, Oct. 21, 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7067557.htm

"TOKYO (AP) - Four Japanese electronics makers have teamed up to make
stereo systems that can download music directly from an Internet
service, without a home computerserving as middle man." 
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Radio Stations Must Pay Royalties for Webcasting
By Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer/Law.com, 10-20-2003
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1066080445213

"In a huge win for the recording industry, a federal appeals court has
refused to overturn a rule passed by the U.S. Copyright Office that says
radio stations must pay royalties when their broadcasts are
simultaneously transmitted digitally over the Internet in a practice
known as "streaming.""
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Why we must stand on guard over copyright
By MICHAEL GEIST, LAW BYTES/TorontoStar.com, Oct. 20, 2003
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1066601706899&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

"As a trading nation, Canadians have considerable experience with
negotiating trade agreements. From the Auto Pact in the 1960s, to the
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, we have relied on trade
deals to facilitate economic growth and to encourage exports of
everything from cars to forestry."
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Transcript: The RIAA and the Music Piracy Debate
Norm Coleman U.S. Senator, R-Minn. Monday, October 20, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5486-2003Oct9.html

"Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) was online to talk about his efforts to
rein in the recording industry's aggressive legal war against people who
illegally trade music online. Piracy is wrong, Coleman agrees, but so
too are some of the industry's tactics."
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MUSIC INDUSTRY WARNS FILE SHARERS THEY COULD BE SUED
By The Online NewsHour, October 20, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/july-dec03/riaawarnings_10-20.html

"The industry late last week sent "lawsuit notification" letters to a
total of 204 people accused of illegally distributing over 1,000
copyrighted songs through peer-to-peer networks, such as Kazaa and
Gnutella, according to RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy."
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Record industry warns of new lawsuits
By John Borland, CNET News.com, October 17, 2003

"The Recording Industry Association of America has begun preparing a
second round of file-swapping lawsuits, notifying 204 individuals that
they are in line to be sued for copyright infringement."