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Special/Investigative Report
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Princeton student sued over paper on CD copying

According to the articles:

""I'm still not very worried about litigation under the DMCA, I don't think there's any case," he told Reuters. "I don't think telling people to press the 'Shift' key is a violation of the DMCA.""
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Entrapment : Questioning Evidence in File Sharing Law Suits

According to the articles:

"Australian ISP Fortune City recently played host to a paper entitled Entrapment : Incriminating Peer to Peer Network Users. The article describes techniques for incriminating Gnutella network users; making them falsely appear to be downloading contraband files. The author of the paper, pseudonomously known as have2Banonymous, makes the point that if it can be shown that an innocent user can be seen to be guilty, evidence in trials against any file sharer could be called into question."
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Crackdown on file sharing has unintended effects Secrecy grows with better encryption

According to the articles:

"Just as Prohibition drove drinkers underground , the music industry's crackdown is pushing many song swappers away from the open Internet and into what amount to cyberspace speakeasies. These high-tech Cotton Clubs usually require users to be trusted or at least know someone inside. The files being traded, instead of out in the open, are encrypted -- the 21st-century equivalent of hiding gin under a fake floorboard."
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Hollings Retirement a Big Win for Liberty

According to the articles:

"...history will remember Hollings as a fool."

"Thanks in part to nearly $300,000 in campaign contributions from the entertainment industry, he’s become a tireless champion of the Luddites. Last year, Hollings introduced an outrageous piece of legislation that would have required every piece of electronics sold in the United States to come outfitted with a copyright protection mechanism. The bill would have significantly increased the cost of everything from car stereos to home computers, and would have thrown a wet blanket over further development of digital technology.

Also last year, also with backing from the Motion Picture Association of America, Hollings attempted to circumvent the legislative process and directly persuade the FCC to prevent consumers from recording broadcast television programs in their own homes.

Hollings’ shameless shilling for the entertainment industry has earned him the title “the senator from Disney,” or “Sen. Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings, D-Disney” in blogging and tech circles.

But Fritz Hollings isn’t finished."
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Europe heading down DMCA route, warns think tank

According to the articles:

"European nations are repeating the US' mistakes over the draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act in their implementation of the equivalent EU law, according to a UK think tank"
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Sony Chief Stringer Takes Stand in Oscar Battle

According to the articles:

"Valenti might have had a good point about piracy had he not followed his declaration with news that studios can't even distribute existing DVDs or tapes that are already in stores. Huh?

Right there he seemed to negate his whole anti-piracy platform. If a tape/disc is available in a retail store, how can sending it to someone for free make it vulnerable to massive fraudulent copying?

The answer is, it can't. Frankly, the whole piracy debate smells like a stalking horse anyway. Movies are still not downloadable the way music is. Valenti is acting as if there are huge lines to buy the kind of in-theatre videos Kramer wanted to make on "Seinfeld," with people's heads bobbing up in the picture, or with grainy, milky images.

So the move is on to cut off the independents and restore Hollywood power to its proper places. Valenti says that screening rooms will be doubled to accommodate Oscar voters, but the truth is that won't happen."
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SACK JACK!

According to the articles:

"The arrogant longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America has turned this year's Oscar race into a Hollywood farce by rewriting the rules at the last minute, banning the sending of "for your consideration" screeners to Oscar voters."
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P-to-P vendors forge ahead with business plans

According to the articles:

""There are two ways to stop piracy online: nuclear holocaust and licensing the content. Obviously, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America Inc.) has opted for nuclear holocaust.""
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Charter Joins RIAA Litigation Parade

According to the articles:

"Charter Communications (Quote, Chart), the nation's third largest cable provider, is the latest Internet service provider (ISP) to sue the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) over the music industry's use of the subpoena powers in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."
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Forget about amending the DMCA

According to the articles:

"As an Information Technology Professional, I found the Coleman hearing interesting and strangely familiar. The panel’s questions to Mr Bainwol and Mr Valenti were very appropriate and relevant. It's unfortunate that we never received the answers those questions deserved."
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EFF Reviews 5 Years Under The DMCA

According to the articles:

""The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a new report, Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA, detailing how the DMCA has stiffled competition, innovation, scientific research, and fair use. The original news release is here, and the report is also available as a PDF. Check it out if you want a good summary of all the DMCA cases over the past five years.""
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