IM NewsLetter | ISSN 1546-2110 | Volume # 21 | November 7, 2003

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Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?

According to the articles:

"news analysis The Federal Communications Commission took a historic step this week toward limiting piracy of digital television signals, enacting regulations that will affect not only consumer-electronics manufacturers, but Silicon Valley companies as well."

"Will Rodger, director of public policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), said the rule is troubling because it means the FCC is encroaching on a technological sector that has flourished in the absence of regulation."

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Fight against file-sharing is misguided

According to the articles:

"No matter where you stand on sharing copyrighted music files on the Internet, the case of Brianna LaHara is just plain wrong."

"But the fat cats at the Recording Industry Association of America are determined not to let 12-year-old girls stand in the way of profits."

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File Sharing Pits Copyright Against Free Speech

According to the articles:

"Forbidden files are circulating on the Internet and threats of lawsuits are in the air. Music trading? No, it is the growing controversy over one company’s electronic voting systems, and the issues being raised, some legal scholars say, are as fundamental as the sanctity of elections and the right to free speech."

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Online File Sharing Thrives in USA

According to the articles:

"comScore Networks reports that despite growth in most sectors of consumer e-commerce, online sales of recorded music in the USA have continued to decline sharply for three consecutive quarters. At the same time, millions of Internet users continue to use online file-sharing services even as some of these applications have vanished."

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Taking on the DMCA

According to the articles:

"Rob Semaan's 321 Studios is a unique enterprise: It's deemed by Hollywood to be one of the most dangerous, piracy-abetting technology companies around, but its products are available without hint of any controversy on the shelves of local computer stores."

"So the fact is that they ignored lots of evidence that we put in front of them. That includes public domain movies. We provided evidence to show that studios have actually encrypted movies that are public domain material. So with evidence like that, we're going to go back to a federal appeals court."

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Movies: Arrrgh, there be pirates in movie theaters -- but even more inside Hollywood

According to the articles:

"What an enemy does to us is sometimes not so destructive as what we do to ourselves out of fear of that enemy. Look at the USA Patriot Act, for example, or the movie industry's efforts to combat piracy."

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Copyright law catches up with UK surfers

According to the articles:

"UK users of peer-to-peer (P2P) websites could soon find themselves running the same legal gauntlet as their US counterparts."

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