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Students Develop File-Swap Alternative
By Justin Pope, Washingtonpost.com,  October 27, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22853-2003Oct27.html

" Keith Winstein and Josh Mandel may soon be the most popular guys on
campus. They say they've discovered a way to give their fellow students
at MIT and elsewhere dorm-room access to a huge music library without
having to worry about getting slapped with a lawsuit from the recording
industry."
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Deal Puts EMI Music's Catalog Online
By Michael McDonough, October 24, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10890-2003Oct24.html?referrer=email

" A file-sharing network on Friday said it has signed a deal with EMI
Music to put a "majority" of the music publisher's catalog online for
users in Europe."
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Hollywood takes anti-piracy message toSchool
By Associated Press.  Oct. 23, 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7085746.htm

" As part of its campaign to thwart online music and movie piracy,
Hollywood is now reaching into school classrooms with a program that
denounces file-sharing and offers prizes for students and teachers who
spread the word about Internet theft."
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MP3 site 'just a search engine':  A Web site at the centre of an
Australian court case has denied hosting copyright-infringing files
ZDNET.com, 27th October 2003
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117336,00.htm

"The Internet company targeted by the music industry over alleged
copyright breaches, ComCen, has denied it hosted any
copyright-infringing MP3 files on its servers, and claims the Web site 
sited in the civil action brought against it acted only as a search
engine.