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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Copyright laws under review
By Julian Lee, Marketing Reporter, February 15, 2005
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Copyright-laws-under-review/2005/02/14/1108229936338.html?oneclick=true

For years millions of Australians have been routinely programming their 
VCRs to record a program or copying a CD on to their MP3 player. 
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Napster hack leads to free downloads
By John Borland , CNET News.com, February 15, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5577963.html

It's like the old Napster all over again: all the music you want for 
free, as long as you're willing to get a little geeky. 
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Hollywood studios settle copyright lawsuit
By The Associated Press, MSNBC.com, Feb. 14, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6969529/

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood movie studios have settled a copyright lawsuit 
against a Web site operator they say had helped people find pirated 
copies of films for download.
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The Quest to Filter Unauthorized File-Trading
By Thomas Mennecke, Slyc.com, February 15, 2005
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=669

The attempt to stop Internet piracy has been a fluid affair for the 
copyright industry. Various attempts have met with mixed results. For 
example, the RIAA has been successful in stomping out Napster and 
crippling FastTrack, while the MPAA has eradicated many of the larger 
BitTorrent tracker sites such as Youceff Torrents and LokiTorrent.
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UA student incarcerated for possessing illegally copied movies, music
By Associated Press, NBC Tucson, February 17, 2005
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2934754

PHOENIX A University of Arizona student has been sentenced in Mesa to 
three months incarceration in a movie and music piracy case. 
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New copy-proof DVDs on the way?
By John Borland , CNET News.com, February 15, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5576375.html

update Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection 
technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's 
antipiracy effort. 
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Beyond the Big ) : Copyright becomes "no right to copy"
By The Editors, Scientific American, February 14, 2005
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=000D3F62-378C-11E7-B78C83414B7F0000

If William Shakespeare were working today on Broadway or in London's 
West End, he would be spending a lot of time with lawyers. The Bard 
adapted Romeo and Juliet from Arthur Brooke's poem