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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Downloading for Democracy
By Kim Zetter , Wired.com, Jul. 19, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64237,00.html/wn_ascii

While legislators in Washin"ton work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks,
one website is turning the peer-to-peer echnology back on Washington to
expose its inner, scretive workings.  But outragedmoderates.org isn't
offering copyright music and videos for download."
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GWU Students Will Get Free Tunes This Fall: Napster Subscriptions in
Residence Halls Aimed at Halting Illegal Downloading
By Amy Argetsinger,Washington July 17, 2004; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56172-2004Jul16.html

"George Washington University this fall will become one of a small
number of colleges to attempt a novel solution to the problem of
students illegally downloading music from the Internet"
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P2P Company Not Going Anywhere
By Michelle Delio, Wired.com, Jul. 17, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64233,00.html?tw=wn_1polihead

"Hatch's latest foray into file sharing, the Inducing Infringement of
Copyrights Act (SB2560), backed by the RIAA, would hold liable anyone
who "intentionally aids, abets or induces'' others to violate copyright
laws. The penalties for copyright infringement can be up to $30,000 per
infringement, and up to $150,000 per instance of willful infringement."
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Politicians serious about DMCA fair use*:  No really
By Nick Farrell, theinquirer.net, Friday 16 July 2004
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17254

"INDUSTRY PUNDITS think that senators will be listening to the worries
of "fair use" advocates into account when they debate a new bill which
will curtail the excesses of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), PC World reported."
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6 More Colleges Sign Campuswide Deals With Napster to Offer Music
Downloads
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle.com, July 19, 2004
http://chronicle.com/free/2004/07/2004071901n.htm

"Six more colleges have signed deals with Napster to provide the
company's online music service to their students, the company plans to
announce today, in a move that college officials hope will reduce
illegal music trading by offering a legal alternative."
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