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Canada: ISP Liability: Canada's Proposed Copyright Reforms
By Mondaq.com, 31 August 2004
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_28043
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"Technology has always driven copyright reform. Each new medium-from
audio recordings to television-has offered a new way to capture and
disseminate ideas. "
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In Phone Calls, Film-Industry Executives Quiz Campus Officials About
File Sharing
By BROCK READ, Chronicle.com,  August 31, 2004
http://chronicle.com/free/2004/08/2004083103n.htm

"Deans and provosts who answer their telephones in the coming months may
be surprised to find themselves fielding questions about campus file
sharing from high-ranking film-industry officials. Industry
representatives are hitting the phones as part of an aggressive new
campaign to persuade college administrators to step up their efforts to
curtail online movie piracy."
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Judges OK garage door openers in copyright case
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, September 1, 2004
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5341625.html

"A federal appeals court has reaffirmed what might seem to be obvious:
replacement garage door openers are legal to sell."
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Interview With a Victim of the RIAA
By Thomas Mennecke, Slyck.com,  September 1, 2004
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=557

"On June 26, 2003, the RIAA began one of the most controversial moves of
its career. Faced with the mounting growth of file- sharing and P2P
networking, the RIAA began what no industry on this scale has ever done
before - it began suing its own customers in the thousands."