In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Consumers Delete Large Numbers of Digital Music Files from PC Hard
Drives, the NPD Group Reports
By BUSINESS WIRE.com, Nov. 5, 2003
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031105005240&newsLang=en

"RIAA Lawsuits Appear to Be a "Win" for the Record Industry, but Winning
Back the Hearts of Consumers is Another Matter"
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EUCD Update: Circumvention Prohibitions Reconsidered: Why America's
Mistake is Europe's Future
By Robin D. Gross ,Esq., IP Justice"
http://www.ipjustice.org/eucd012903.shtml

"Today lawmakers all over the world are both dreaming of the
opportunities and grappling with the challenges that digital technology
creates for authors and distributors of intellectual property.  At the
same time, consumers express excitement mixed with frustration as
eBooks, CDs, DVDs, and other entertainment is increasingly distributed
with digital locks restricting their lawful use."
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Amazon: Look, But Don't Touch
By Associated Press, Wired.com, Nov. 03, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61057,00.html

"Amazon.com's new book-searching feature does not allow users to print
pages from within books, soothing authors who feared the tool could give
users too much free content at the expense of book sales."
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Students buck DMCA threat
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com November 3, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5101623.html

"When Diebold Election Systems learned that its internal e-mail
correspondence had popped up on the Web, it used a common legal tactic:
sending cease-and-desist letters to Webmasters."
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FCC Moves to Squash Digital TV Piracy Online
By Reuters, November 4, 2003
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3754749

" U.S. communications regulators on Tuesday approved new rules designed
to strictly limit sending digital television programs over the Internet,
attempting to head off problems plaguing the music industry."
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Pirates Of The Internet
60 Minutes, CBS.com, Nov. 2, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/60minutes/main581153.shtml

" It's no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry, as
millions of people have stopped buying CDs and started stealing their
favorite songs by downloading them from the Internet."
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