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Bill C-60 puts the padlock on teachers, librarians
By MICHAEL GEIST, Toronto Star, June 27, 2005
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119823809845&call_pageid=971794782442&col=971886476975&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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"Last week the federal government unveiled Bill C-60, its long awaited 
digital copyright reform bill. Ottawa kept its promises  the recording 
industry and Canada's Internet service providers emerged as winners with 
each securing a lengthy list of new rights, powers, and protections."
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Rethinking the File-Swap Morass
By Associated Press, Wired.com, June 24, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68000,00.html

"Four years after it shuttered the original Napster with a legal 
assault, the recording industry is taking a different approach to online 
file-swapping: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
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This week in legal tech news
By Steven Musil, CNET News.com, June 24, 2005
http://news.com.com/This+week+in+legal+tech+news/2100-1028_3-5760826.html?tag=alert

"Two of the most closely watched court cases in the tech world were left 
undecided this week as the U.S. Supreme Court chose to delay its rulings."
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Senate punts on broadcast flag option
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, June 23, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5759807.html

"A key U.S. Senate panel on Thursday decided not to intervene in a 
long-simmering dispute over the "broadcast flag," a form of copy 
prevention technology for digital TV broadcasts."
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Software piracy 'seen as normal'
By Alfred Hermida, BBC News, 23 June, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4122624.stm

"Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or 
software from the internet are not working, a report suggests."
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New software guards cds from copiers, and the mix culture doesn't like it
By Anjali Athavaley, The Washington Post, June 22, 2005
http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0506/22/0tech-223599.htm

"Ben Freedland did two things his fellow college students have routinely 
done for the past several years: First, he bought a new music CD by 
campus fave the Dave Matthews Band, then he tried to upload it onto his 
Apple iPod."